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Hello there Did you take any photos You can then post them on the forum
Thanks

These are the photos of the giraffe.Any ideas what is wrong

It is hard to tell from the photos but I would hazard a guess that at some stage the giraffe received a very powerful kick to the face, which broke the jaw and pushed the facial bones out of alignment
and while the fracture has healed she has been left with some disabilities, but is capable of adapting
to the circumstances.

Its truly amazing how animals do adapt to disabilities.

Here is another photo

Mutilated Elephant in Krugerpark, probably by a snare of poachers.

Sad to say this can also happen if a young elephant is seized by a large crocodile but manages to escape, always a possibility near permanent water sources.

I suggest she should be named and that this thread should cover her tracks. Who ever sees her can post a photo or describe the encounter ect. Just as people learn to live and cope with dissabilities it shows the same determination in the animal world as well. Thank you for the photos. I hope that I would meet her as well. Elephants are such magnificent animals.

Hi, I saw this elephant with only half a trunk somewhere on the main road between the Tropic of Capricorn and Shingwedzi camp.
Do you know this elephant?


What could have caused this to happen? Could it have been a snare?

I remember an ellie like this from a visit 4 years ago. He watched me set up camp at the fence and I spent a while with him later watching him eat by flinging his trunk over branches and pulling them to his mouth and trapping grass between his trunk and front foot and tossing it up to his mouth. He was a lovely restful ellie. I believe it was a snare that caused the damage.

Oh what a dreadful shame, but he seems to have adapted to his disability.

I do agree with ecojunkie about the snare , however it is unbelievable how animals that were injured adapt to there circumstances

Oh how I HATE those morons that put up snares!

We saw, I think the same one, January just outside Shingwedzi.

He is a very relaxed elephant. I got some beautiful photos of him, will post a bit later on.

It's a shame, but incredible how he adapted.........

Animals are far more adaptable than humans - yet just look at the paralympics