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Tembe Elephant

Loxodonta africana

Photo by PunkusArnett
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Field Notes

Description:

African Elephant bull - this is what Africans call a Tusker. A very large bull

Habitat:

Rainforests to deserts, swamps to seashores, Montane forests to savannah and bushveldt.

Notes:

We saw this bull along with 20 to 30 others at the Tembe Elephant Park in northeastern Kwa-Zulu Natal province near the border with Mozambique. This reserve was created to save a large free roaming Elephant herd from being killed or used for target practice during the fighing in Mozambique. The Zulu donated the land and when the herd migrated south across the border from Mozambique they were fenced in and are now protected.

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Comments (6)
YukoChartraw
Beautiful, precious shot! I'm glad that they are protected now. :-)
LarryGraziano
Hola Punkus Could you add this African Elephant to the Endangered species of the World mission? http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/13996003 Thanks!

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PublishedJuly 20, 2011

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