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Elephants
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How can these villagers be so savage? After raiding their farm, it was trying to escape or fend off the attackers, but it was injured, and they just hacked it to death: https://www.unilad.co.uk/animals/elephan...-in-kenya/,
https://twitter.com/Olepanian/status/119...n-kenya%2F Olephian on Twitter  *This image is copyright of its original author
(01-14-2019, 01:54 AM)Shadow Wrote: Biggest of the big deserves to have own thread, and not only because of size. Elephants are fascinating in so many ways. Shadow, I discovered just now that there is an older thread for elephants, and it has the same name as this thread: https://wildfact.com/forum/topic-elephants (11-22-2019, 03:55 PM)BorneanTiger Wrote:(01-14-2019, 01:54 AM)Shadow Wrote: Biggest of the big deserves to have own thread, and not only because of size. Elephants are fascinating in so many ways. Yes there is, it simply has been forgotten to merge with this one. 
Beverly Joubert: " A herd moves through the wide open landscape of Duba Plains. Elephants on this Okavango island know that there is no threat to them from the few camera-wielding tourists, and their calm curiosity allows for wonderful, close moments with them. ".
Beverly Joubert: " It’s a wonderful tradition to give thanks and turn your mind from the pressures of the everyday to those magical moments, days and incidents whose shine gets brighter the more you focus on them.
I’m thankful to be here of course. The rigours of the buffalo attack have faded and my health has returned but that moment of life and death could easily have slipped into death had it not been for @dereckjoubert who would never give up on me. I’m so thankful to be able to spend my time back in the African bush with even more love for it and determination to do good by it and by the people who live out here together with wildlife and look towards the best way forward for man and beast. I’m thankful that the #RhinosWithoutBorders project is doing so well and we have welcomed dozens of babies – born into a safer environment and I’m so thankful that so many people are supporting this and keeping them safe. There are many stresses on our wild places and their inhabitants and it’s easy to get bogged down in the challenges. But there are also so many talented and dedicated people who are working non-stop to ensure that wild places remain wild, that people and predators can co-exist, that people and elephants can live in harmony. And there are more and more people who are seeing the benefits of keeping the wilds wild as photographic tourists flock and jobs are created and the land remains more resilient to drought. For these things – and so many more, I am so very thankful. #HappyThanksgiving ". 
Dereck Joubert: " Yes, a good wallow is about temperature control, sunscreen, maybe some much-needed relief from pesky insects… But it’s also about pleasure and well-being – just one important component among the many that make for a healthy, content elephant life. These rich and varied needs are why captive environments fail to approximate a natural existence for an animal as complex and intelligent as this one. "
@Raghav Ramaiah
Big tusker from Kabini. Must have been one hell of a fight to lose a tusk!!
Beverly Joubert: " Empathy, trust, respect, grace. Everything we see in elephants we wish we could be...with gratitude to them and to you this season.We would like to thank you for your continued support and wish you a very merry and peaceful African Christmas! "
Not as big as the Tsavo National Park the Amboseli Park in Kenya remains clearly a famous place to see some big tuskers.
" Tiny elephant blows bubbles trying to drink water with a trunk that will not co-operate "... By Marie Knight.
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