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Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Once a mighty Elephant

It gives you a strange feeling when you come across the bones of what once was a mighty animal.
I don't know how this one died. Maybe he died of old age, maybe a poacher killed it for its ivory.
Nature is unforgiving as are the bullets from a poachers rifle.



Pulled apart, probably by scavenging Hyenas or Vultures, 
the  bones of this Elephant
have been bleaching in the African Sun for quite a while.


Part of the head with grinding teeth, but without tusks.


"Ant" holds one of the thigh bones, (hip to knee)
giving us an idea of the size of this animal.





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