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Posted by DannyLaredo on Tue Apr 14, 2020 4:09 pm

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Image taken at a waterhole not to far from the lodge at Erindi game reserve.

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by Ed Cordes on Tue Apr 14, 2020 8:19 pm
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Excellent dramatic image of this guy. B&W works well; shows the drama.
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by david fletcher on Wed Apr 15, 2020 3:25 am
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by Carol Clarke on Wed Apr 15, 2020 3:48 pm
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A very evocative image of this big boy, Danny.  On the one hand his broken off tusks should mean the poachers would not want to bother with him, but on the other hand it would impede his foraging to a certain extent without the extra grip the tusks would give him in bringing down branches etc to feed on, and he would be at a disadvantage in a fight.  Although I still wouldn't argue with him!  The black and white conversion adds drama.

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by DannyLaredo on Thu Apr 16, 2020 4:50 am
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Carol Clarke wrote:A very evocative image of this big boy, Danny.  On the one hand his broken off tusks should mean the poachers would not want to bother with him, but on the other hand it would impede his foraging to a certain extent without the extra grip the tusks would give him in bringing down branches etc to feed on, and he would be at a disadvantage in a fight.  Although I still wouldn't argue with him!  The black and white conversion adds drama.

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i'v never seen so many elephants with broken tusks as I have seen in Namibia. 
Even in Etosha, plenty of them have broken tusks.
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by Carol Clarke on Thu Apr 16, 2020 4:06 pm
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DannyLaredo wrote:
Carol Clarke wrote:A very evocative image of this big boy, Danny.  On the one hand his broken off tusks should mean the poachers would not want to bother with him, but on the other hand it would impede his foraging to a certain extent without the extra grip the tusks would give him in bringing down branches etc to feed on, and he would be at a disadvantage in a fight.  Although I still wouldn't argue with him!  The black and white conversion adds drama.

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i'v never seen so many elephants with broken tusks as I have seen in Namibia. 
Even in Etosha, plenty of them have broken tusks.

I was reading reports that said the same thing, Danny.  It appears that with the harsher conditions they fight over everything in Namibia. With the dry climate and limited water supplies, they even fight over that resulting in bulls with broken tusks.  I also wonder if the shortage of water in their diet might contribute to their tusks being more brittle and more likely to break, rather than the elephants that have more access to water and a relatively richer diet in other African countries.

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by DannyLaredo on Thu Apr 16, 2020 6:50 pm
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Carol Clarke wrote:
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Carol Clarke wrote:A very evocative image of this big boy, Danny.  On the one hand his broken off tusks should mean the poachers would not want to bother with him, but on the other hand it would impede his foraging to a certain extent without the extra grip the tusks would give him in bringing down branches etc to feed on, and he would be at a disadvantage in a fight.  Although I still wouldn't argue with him!  The black and white conversion adds drama.

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i'v never seen so many elephants with broken tusks as I have seen in Namibia. 
Even in Etosha, plenty of them have broken tusks.

I was reading reports that said the same thing, Danny.  It appears that with the harsher conditions they fight over everything in Namibia. With the dry climate and limited water supplies, they even fight over that resulting in bulls with broken tusks.  I also wonder if the shortage of water in their diet might contribute to their tusks being more brittle and more likely to break, rather than the elephants that have more access to water and a relatively richer diet in other African countries.

Carol.
Yeah it think it is safe to assume that.
Also, for whatever reason, they just seemed bigger in Namibia. Some really big male Elephants.
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by Cynthia Crawford on Fri Apr 17, 2020 7:01 am
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Very dramatic contrasts make this work very well in B&W.
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