A very lucky shot of an African fish eagle taken at Lake Langano in Ethiopia eagle African Ethiopia African Fish Eagle
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Images taken while on a safari drive in the Waterburg, South Africa - use & enjoy african safari safari African Safari 1
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The "proboscis", or trunk of an Elephant, is a fusion of the nose and upper lip, elongated and specialized to become the elephant's most important and versatile appendage. African elephants are equipped with two fingerlike projections at the tip of their trunk, while Asians have only one. According to biologists, the elephant's trunk is said to have over forty thousand individual muscles in it, making it sensitive enough to pick up a single blade of grass, yet strong enough to rip the branches off a tree. Some sources indicate that the correct number of muscles in an elephant's trunk is nearer to one hundred thousand. | | Most herbivores (plant eaters, like the elephant) are adapted with teeth for cutting and tearing off plant materials. However, except for the very young or infirm, elephants always use their trunks to tear up their food and then place it in their mouth. They will graze on grass or reach up into trees to grasp leaves, fruit, or entire branches. If the desired food item is too high up, the elephant will wrap its trunk around the tree or branch and shake its food loose or sometimes simply knock the tree down altogether. The trunk is also used for drinking. Elephants suck water up into the trunk (up to fifteen quarts [fourteen litres] at a time) and then blow it into their mouth. Elephants also inhale water to spray on their body during bathing. On top of this watery coating, the animal will then spray dirt and mud, which act as a protective sunscreen. | | This appendage also plays a key role in many social interactions. Familiar elephants will greet each other by entwining their trunks, much like a handshake. They also use them while play-wrestling, caressing during courtship, and for dominance displays - a raised trunk can be a warning or threat, while a lowered trunk can be a sign of submission. Elephants can defend themselves very well by flailing their trunk at unwanted intruders or by grasping and flinging them. | | An elephant also relies on its trunk for its highly developed sense of smell. Raising the trunk up in the air and swivelling it from side to side, like a periscope, it can determine the location of friends, enemies, and food sources. | | If you would like to know more, just click on the other photos in my "African Elephant" series Elephant Elephantidae Pachyderm African Elephant
With a mass of over 5kg, elephant brains are larger than that of any land animal, and only twice smaller than the brains of the largest of whales (that have body mass over twenty times greater than elephants). | | A wide variety of behavior, including grief, art, play, use of tools, compassion, self awareness and the best memory in the entire animal kingdom (far better than human memory capacity), evidence a highly intelligent species rivaled only by dolphins and primates (and humans). | | The largest areas in elephant brain are those responsible for hearing, smell and movement coordination, and a large portion of the brain has to do with trunk management and sensitivity. | | Increased out of any comparative proportion, the temporal lobe, responsible for processing of audio information, hearing and language, is relatively far greater than that of dolphins (which use elaborate echolocation) and humans (who use language and symbols). | | If you would like to know more, just click on the other photos in my "African Elephant" series Elephant Elephantidae Pachyderm African Elephant
This is a photo of a baby and its mother. The photo is taken in Uganda baby mother uganda African mother with baby
Images taken while on a safari drive in the Waterburg, South Africa - use & enjoy african safari safari African Safari 2
My Old Flat - I loved that place! Did the decor myself (wow!) <smile> who cares interior design lounge African Interior
African beader working in a women's empowerment group, South Africa. | | NB: Credit to read "Photo by Dominic Morel" when publishing / using in South Africa beads work beading African Beader
This picture I made when I was on my holliday in Kenya. This is a local village where people cook outside african kitchen kenya African Kitchen
A Spring sun set in South Africa, taken just out side of Johannesburg sunset africa Landscape African Sunset
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This beautiful animal was photographed at the Johannesburg Zoo, South Africa Elephant animal mammal The Great African Elephant
Three penguins isolated on white. | | If you use this photo - Please credit me with my real name Penny Mathews animal antarctica antarctica African Penguins
African Evening in the bushveld. | | NB: Credit to read "Photo by Dominic Morel" when publishing / using in South Africa landscape Africa evening African Evening
Three examples of the incredible scenes that Robin witnessed in South Africa Horizon sunset dusk South African Sunset 1
African wild dog - one of Africa's rarest carnivores. Picture taken in the Kruger National Park African Wild Dog African Wild Dog
Picture taken in South African township area, little girl clutching her jacket with a sad look on her face africa girl orphan African Orphan
An African drummer at the World Beat festival in Salem, Oregon, USA african drummer world African Drummer
This flower was grown in Fredricksburg, Texas at a Wildseed Farm. The daisy is a favorite flower of mine but I had never seen the African variety. The color of the African Daisy has such variety spring flower daisy Flower - the African Daisy
A series of photos from an African Village African South village Children playing in an African village
The elephants (Elephantidae) are a family of pachyderm, and the only remaining family in the order Proboscidea in the class Mammalia. | | Elephantidae has three living species: the African Bush Elephant, the African Forest Elephant (until recently known collectively as the African Elephant), and the Asian Elephant (also known as the Indian Elephant). Other species have become extinct since the last ice age, which ended about 10,000 years ago. | | Elephants are mammals, and the largest land animals alive today. The elephant's gestation period is 22 months, the longest of any land animal. At birth it is common for an elephant calf to weigh 120 kg (265 lb). An elephant may live as long as 70 years, sometimes longer. | | This elephant is 37 years old. | | Elephants are considered symbols of wisdom in Asian cultures, and are famed for their exceptional memory and high intelligence, rivalled only by cetaceans (whales and dolphins) and hominids (primates). | | Elephants are increasingly threatened by human intrusion. Between 1970 and 1989, the African elephant population plunged from 1.3 million to about 600,000 in 1989; the current population is estimated to be between 400,000 and 660,000. | | The elephant is now a protected species worldwide, placing restrictions on capture, domestic use, and trade in products such as ivory. | | If you would like to know more, just click on the other photos in my "African Elephant" series Elephantidae Pachyderm Mammalia African Elephant
the sunsets in african were SO red it was amazing (this is a scanned print of a photo we took) sun sunset horizon African sunset
the stool of African chief in Cameroon: the symbol is: the chief is stronger than the tiger, he sit down above africa african cameroon African Stool
