Elephant in Tanzania, Africa. | | You are welcome to use my photos for any personal or commercial use. | All I ask is that you let me know, and credit the images to 'Kimberlee Kessler Design'. Thank you Elephant Africa animal Elephant
This beautiful animal was photographed at the Johannesburg Zoo, South Africa Elephant animal mammal The Great African Elephant
Older female elephant sauntering over to take an up close look in Etosha NP, Namibia elephant elephant terrestrial animal Elephant Matron
The mother elephant had to push the youngster off the road, it was really interested in our car elephant africa road Move-it shorty
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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
Images taken while on a safari drive in the Waterburg, South Africa - use & enjoy african safari safari African Safari 2
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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
Masai Mara Forest Reserve a heaven for animal lovers. Situated in the east African region hosts to some wonderful creatures. These are a group of wild Elephant heards elephants wild animal Wild Elephants - Masai Mara - Kenya
Birds at the Birds of Eden sanctuary, Garden Route, South Africa. | | NB: Credit to read "Photo by Dominic Morel" when publishing / using in South Africa african grey parrot Birds of Eden
Photo of a young male Leopard sitting on a termite mound in the Sabi Sand game reserve, South Africa leopard africa terrestrial animal Young Male Leopard
Mother Elephant with daughter in Pilanesberg reserve in South Africa! How sweet ;-) Elephant South african Elephant
The cutest butt I've seen in awhile, from a friendly elephant at the Zoo elephant butt tail Cute Rump
these 3 elephants cross the zambezi river on the border between namibia and zambia.. the whole time they were holding on to each other. the littlest one held the tail of another in his trunk elephants friends river Elephants crossing the zambezi