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@Wolverine :

About #315: I have related to have crossed from close distance a big male Cape buffalo:

https://wildfact.com/forum/topic-african...an+buffalo
Just see and read at #2.

But unfortunately not the same encounter with a big African bush elephant. I saw numerous elephants, elephants herds inside the Masai Mara, Amboseli, but from a certain distance (50 meters and more) and as you know, elephants herds are led by an experienced female. Once however, at the Amboseli park, a female should have thought that we followed the herd too closely. She intervened and stood between us and the herds, with numerous baby elephants, making us understand we were too many and had to go away. Softly but firmly.

I remember of course having seen some big males, at Amboseli and Tsavo in particular, but only from a distance. With the binoculars, it was perfect !

I share your admiration towards solitary big African males. Both serene and powerful... We can have the impression they have built up the whole wisdom of the world and having done this, they're only quite silently conversing with themselves. Monuments in motion...

Among the Europa zoos, the Basel one is famous as concerns its African elephants.

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