Posts tagged “Elephant”

Spotted right on the boundary of the reserve, this Kariega elephant is making his way up to higher ground. Kariega Game Reserve spans over 9000 hectares of typical Eastern Cape bushveld - lush thickets and bush especially green now due to the...

The elephant eye has always been a fascinating and popular subject for the wildlife photograpaher - amateur and professional alike. Some have compared the emotion portrayed in an elephant eye to that of a human eye, and it seems that as we learn more about this incredible species the comparison is becoming more appropriate in symbolising just how intelligent the elephant really is.

These two elephant calves were recently captured at Kariega Game Reserve South Africa. Elephants are incredibly intelligent and social creatures, led by a matriarch (female head). Everyone in the herd takes an active role in the raising of...

This lovely shot of elephants on a backdrop of cascading green valleys was recently captured at Kareiga Game Reserve South Africa a few weeks after the floods of October 2012. Although some damage was caused to the...

I’ve just googled “rubbing-stones” and come up with some surprising results, not at all what I had in mind. Advertised were stones to smooth bricks and tiles, stones for use by sculptors, materials for making stone-rubbings, and ‘lucky’ stones...

It would seem like all the elephants are conspiring to have their babies at the same time and now we have 5 new baby elephants, look out trees! Soon you will feel their presence. It has also been confirmed that the lioness had 3 new cubbies here...

It was in April 1947 that Dr Robert Broom, the noted doctor-turned-palaeontologist, announced to the world the discovery at Sterkfontein caves, some 70 km south-west of Pretoria, of “Mrs Ples,” the fossilized skull of an Australopithecus...