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Water is Life Taken on the Chobe river, Botswana with my good friend Guts from Pangolin Safaris while out on a safari. Botswana,Geotagged Click/tap to enlarge Promoted

Water is Life

Taken on the Chobe river, Botswana with my good friend Guts from Pangolin Safaris while out on a safari.

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    Claire Hamilton
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    Your description is so true. Aging elephants that have stopped replacing their molars tend to head for rivers and lakes such as this as the vegetation is easier to chew. Unfortunately it has minimal nutritional value and so the elephant will ultimately die of starvation. This also explains 'elephant graveyards' although the elephants don't go there to die, they go there to try to survive. Sad isn't it. Posted 11 years ago

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The African bush elephant

The African bush elephant is the larger of the two species of African elephant. Both it and the African forest elephant have usually been classified as a single species, known simply as the African elephant, but recent evidence has seen the forest elephant classified as a distinct species . Some authorities still consider the currently available evidence as insufficient for splitting African elephants into two species.

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Uploaded Jun 17, 2014. Captured Sep 11, 2012 02:26 in D3507, Namibia.
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  • NIKON D7000
  • f/6.0
  • 10/25000s
  • ISO2000
  • 350mm
Captured in the winter. More winter photos.