Close enough to see her eyes!
This mother elephant and her baby came up to visit us in camp. They were within 3 feet of where we had been having breakfast - who could eat with all that excitement?! I loved the way the early morning light played through the leaves onto her hide.
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.
Similar species: Elephants
By LeslieLMG
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Uploaded Aug 30, 2014. Captured Jul 12, 2014 23:06 in CKGR, Botswana.
