"Elephant family groups are very close. While they can’t exactly hug each other, elephants do wrap their trunks around younger relatives to reassure them and to greet each other they twine their trunks together." -United for Wildlife
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This Week's Image Series:
The Elephants of South Africa
Photographed by Ron Foster
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It's hard to imagine a world without these magnificent land mammals, but it's a very good possibility of happening if we do not aggressively address more ways to protect them.
This series is simply for bringing awareness of the beauty of the elephants of South Africa.
“We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.”
Here is a summary video of my images featured during last week’s image series:
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