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Leeukos
 Post subject: Re: Elephant
Unread postPosted: Sun May 20, 2012 9:41 am 
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This elephant was drinking water at Mlondozidam close to Lower-Sabie. The dam was empty and the elephant had to walk on the rocks to get to the water.

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The biggest elephant was recorded in Angola in 1974. The shoulder height was 3.96 meter heigh and the circumference of his front leg was 1.8 meter.

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 Post subject: Re: Elephant
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This elephant was drinking water at Mlondozidam close to Lower-Sabie. The dam was empty and the elephant had to walk on the rocks to get to the water.

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The heaviest elephant weighed a record 6 569 kg.

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 Post subject: Re: Elephant
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An elephant struggling to get to the water through the mud at Mlondozidam.

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The longest elephant tusk comes from Kenia and was 3 276.6 mm.

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An elephant struggling to get to the water through the mud at Mlondozidam.

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The heaviest elephant tusks comes from Mount Kilimanjaro and they weighed 102.3 and 107.3 kg.

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Haven't seen that dam so dry in ages. :shock:

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 Post subject: What's This Old Ellie Doing?
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I came across this old old female the other day, seemingly hiccupping and 'playing' with what looks like a rock before putting it in her mouth. Is it a rock or a palm heart? Is this an old ellie with bad teeth mashing up some easily edible food or does it just like eating rocks???


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 Post subject: Re: What's This Old Ellie Doing?
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Elephants have been known to walk around with objects in their trunks and mouths. They are sometimes found walking around with road signs in their trunks which they pull from the ground. There are records of them carrying around bones of dead relatives as well as other animals. And there was also a report from Mopani where a bull threw a rock at a game drive vehicle!

I believe that this old cow is probably just licking the minerals from the rock, as they would do with bones as well.

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 Post subject: Re: What's This Old Ellie Doing?
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Thanks. I hadn't thought of that - it definitely looked like a rock. i only considered the other option having read 'Beat About the bush'.


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I believe it is a fairly rare occurence for an Elephant to have twins. In this photo the female is running away from what I believe was a swarm of bees followed very closely by her twins, (the swarm had just flown past my vehicle). Taken on the S125 (Nwaswiso ntso Road) during my November 2011 trip.

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:dance: twins :clap:

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Lovely pic adw! Cute twins.


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Two elephants recognising each other from opposites sides of the Sable dam and greeting each other:

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