Notes:
- An elephant wearing a Santa Claus costume performs for Thai students during Christmas celebrations at Jirasart school in Ayutthaya province north of Bangkok. (Chaiwat Subrasom, wsj.com December 24, 2018)
Stir the Soul
December 25, 2018 by 17 Comments
Saturday Morning
December 22, 2018 by 15 Comments
I can watch elephants (and elephants alone) for hours at a time, for sooner or later the elephant will do something very strange such as mow grass with its toenails or draw the tusks from the rotted carcass of another elephant and carry them off into the bush. There is mystery behind that masked gray visage, and ancient life force, delicate and mighty, awesome and enchanted, commanding the silence ordinarily reserved for mountain peaks, great fires, and the sea.
–Peter Matthiessen, The Tree Where Man Was Born
Photo: Lukas Holas. Quote: via Schonwieder
Bath Time!
April 10, 2018 by 24 Comments
Orphaned baby elephants take a mud bath at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Elephant Orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya. The elephant orphanage looks after 29 baby elephants orphaned by human-wildlife conflicts and poaching, among other causes. (Dai Kurokawa, wsj.com, April 10, 2018)
It’s been a long day
February 7, 2018 by 21 Comments
Notes:
- A mahout bathes his elephant in the river Yamuna in New Delhi, India, on Tuesday. (Adnan Abidi, Reuters, wsj.com, February, 7, 2018)
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Sunday Morning Sunrise
October 22, 2017 by 28 Comments
After reading “this“ several days ago, I’ve been unable to shake it from consciousness. “This” is driving the underlying current of my blog post shares of African animals. Even this herd of elephants who wake to the morning sun and march in Tsavo National Park, seem to be doing so solemnly.
Love and Safety (and a punch in the gut)
October 8, 2017 by 29 Comments
A worker at the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya shares a tender moment with an elephant calf. Your Shot photographer I. Ogila explains, “When poachers kill adult elephants for ivory, the young ones are usually left desperate and unlikely to survive alone in the wild.” But by being in the care of the Trust, “they get a chance to live and die of old age.”
Source: NationalGeographic.com. Photograph by I. Ogila, National Geographic Your Shot
T.G.I.F.: It’s been a long week
August 18, 2017 by 19 Comments
