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African Bush Elephant

Loxodonta africana

Description:

The African Elephant is the largest living terrestrial animal. They are herbivorous. Listed as Vulnerable due hunting for meat, skin, bones, and tusks. Because of their eyes position and size of the head and neck they have limited peripheral vision, they have poor eyesight with a range of only 25 ft.

Notes:

Photographed at the zoo.

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8 Comments

LarryGraziano
LarryGraziano 11 years ago

Hi carolina,
Could you add this African Elephant to the Endangered species of the World mission?
http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/1399...
Thanks!

raulalsc
raulalsc 12 years ago

Hermoso, ese ojo se ve tan emotivo. Casi puedo sentir su sentimiento.

MatthewKritzer
MatthewKritzer 12 years ago

Nice, nice, nice, Carolina...

Juan DiTrani
Juan DiTrani 12 years ago

Nice picture!

wow... look at those eye lashes... absolutely gorgeous... great photo Carolina... ;-)

p.young713
p.young713 12 years ago

It is very beautiful!

p.young713
p.young713 12 years ago

Beautiful photo!

ceherzog
ceherzog 13 years ago

very nice!

Carolina
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Carolina

Barranquilla, Atlántico, Colombia

Spotted on Aug 9, 2010
Submitted on Apr 23, 2011

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