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GG-South African Bush Elephants (Loxodonta africana africana) 854

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Elephants select their meals taking into account the time it takes to prepare each mouthful. Eating long grass is probably the easiest and quickest way for an elephant to fill up! On the other hand, one of the most time-consuming food-items for elephants to prepare is bark. With larger trees, the elephant drives a tusk between the bark and the sapwood and then yanks a strip off the tree with its trunk. The soft wood of some trees such as the baobab is also eaten. Such tusking sometimes destroys the whole tree.

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  • Congrats on POTD in Outdoors-Wildlife-Members Choice Album!

    said photo of 98harleygirl 98harleygirl 26 days ago

  • Congratulations on being featured in Outdoors! Thanks for sharing.

    said photo of lovejoy lovejoy 16 days ago

  • Interesting and pictorial. Congratulations!

    said photo of autumnmorn autumnmorn 16 days ago

  • Fantastic shot! Congratulations on being featured in Outdoors! Enjoy your day. Ria The Netherlands

    said photo of 8598 8598 15 days ago

  • A wonderful wildlife image and so interesting with your well documented description of the elephants behaviour.Many congratulations on the well deserved feature POTD.,Outdoors,Regards,Ro d.

    said photo of chrisrod100 chrisrod100 15 days ago

  • Congratulations on your featured photo! What amazing shot this is! Tony, Dennis (who is very busy this week, but send you greetings too) & Matso

    said photo of tonymm64912 tonymm64912 15 days ago

  • Who's the King of the Jungle?

    said photo of thmps2797 thmps2797 15 days ago

  • Wonderful album! Congratulations on being featured! Thanks for sharing! From Russia with love, Alex.

    said photo of russpsych russpsych 15 days ago

  • Congratulations on being a featured photo, well deserved, wonderful shot, I am in Canada on holiday and some hotels are impossible to get a signal so have to catch up on my webshots when I can, take care Ann

    said photo of annedm1 annedm1 14 days ago

  • Congratulations on your Members Choice selection in Outdoors.

    said photo of bearfolk bearfolk 13 days ago

  • wild wilderness - awesome

    said photo of trazamar trazamar 12 days ago

  • Awesome...Thanks for sharing

    said photo of velsuba velsuba 8 days ago

  • You're so lucky to have gotten such a closeup! Amazing pic.

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