Saturday, January 23, 2010

King of the animal kingdom?

This beautiful elephant bull we saw in Kruger National Park. He just wanted to show off and luckily never showed real agression. But still...very impressive! Don't wanna know how impressive these animals are when they charge seriously. During my work the Gabonese rainforest I have run for bush elephants almost on a daily basis, but the good thing was that you did not see them (only heared their footsteps in the thick rainforest), so you could not see how big and impressive they were. Also bush elephants are much smaller than this adult bull savanah elephant. This elephant just wanted to let us know that he knew himself how big and strong he was!

4 comments:

Tim Rucci said...

I always enjoy reading your posts and it's great to see you posting more regularly again. The stories you tell are a fascinating look into wildlife that many people can only wonder about. Thanks!

Martine said...

Thanks a lot for this nice comment Tim! This encourages me to continue to posting photos and stories about so many incredible wild animals. All answers about daily human life can be found in nature.

Parag said...

That's wonderful.But I would love to see many more pictures of wild animals from the Kruger National Park.
Kruger Park Animals

Ilse Bastmeijer said...

Hey Martine, ik werd via via geattendeerd op je site. Supermooi en de verhalen zijn ispirerend om te lezen!