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Why good birders are like old elephants

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Potholes and good birds aside, what does this has to do with elephants? Although very poor bird guides – elephants don’t care to memorise birds – they do know where those important things in their world are. Instead of desperately trying to remember, be like an old elephant. Simply, ellies never forget! Knowing without knowing.

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Tembe Elephant Park, South Africa

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The history of Tembe Elephant Park in South Africa is a slightly unusual one. But it wasn’t founded to serve as a refuge for human refugees, but animal ones, specifically elephants. And elephants are always overwhelming anyway. Tembe Elephant Park is a mosaic of savannah and forest.

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Dramatic Elephant Rescue

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This elephant was saved from drowning in a manmade structure in a Zimbabwe national park by a team that is using drones to deter poaching. … Continue reading → The post Dramatic Elephant Rescue appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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Suda the elephant paints an elephant

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Elephants are amazing, and Suda is a talented painter. I wish I could paint an elephant as well as she did! The post Suda the elephant paints an elephant appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals. cute of the day cute video elephants' Maybe you need a trunk?

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Echo the Elephant Dies

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Echo, the elephant matriarch of a 40 member herd in Kenya has died from what is believed to be old age. Tags: elephants. Echo appeared in the films sequels now popularly known as the ‘Echo Trilogy'.

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Being A Living Fossil Evolved Multiple Times

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These all had their own sub population of one or more species of large land bird, and these populations, in turn, give us the large lane birds we have today, except on Madagascar where the Elephant Bird went extinct (recently). Birds Elephant Bird evolution kiwi ratites Vicariance' Or maybe it was just the Kiwi that did this thing.

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Joy for Orphan Elephants

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Dedicated keepers at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust's Nairobi Elephant Nursery in Kenya protect baby Shukuru from the cold and rain, and the risk of pneumonia, with a custom-made raincoat. A mobile vet unit was able to tranquilize her, clean her wounds, and extract the spear.

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