African savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana) are the world's largest living land-based animals, reaching a height between 10 and 13 feet (roughly 3 to 4 meters) and weighing between 4 to 7 tons. One in particular, Doma, is the most dominant male in his group. Yet he seems to have developed this superiority as much through...
"Elephants returning to a matriarchal group are greeted with ceremonial embraces, entwinings of trunks and colossal snorts of pleasure. Coming across the bones of their dead, they will salute them, lightly touching the skulls and tusks with their trunks. They have been known to bury dead family members, covering them in earth and brightly coloured leaves, working together, surrounding the corpse with fruit and flowers."
from 'The Golden Mole', by Katherine Rundell #Books#Nature#Elephants
#Elephants are typically gray, but this small calf, which belongs to the genus #Loxodonta, has pink skin & fair hair, as a result of an inherited condition called #albinism — a genetic disorder that stops the production of a molecule called #melanin that is responsible for pigment in the eyes, hair & skin.
#WatercolorWednesday:
Laurent de Brunhoff (American, b. France, b. 1925)
“The Gold Medal” and “Stirring the Chocolate” from Babar Learns to Cook, 1989
Watercolor on paper
now on display at “Childhood Favorites: 100 Years of Children’s Book Illustration” exhibition at Washington County Museum of Fine Arts #elephants
Researchers decode how elephants form "sentences," lending insight to their complex communication (www.salon.com)
African savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana) are the world's largest living land-based animals, reaching a height between 10 and 13 feet (roughly 3 to 4 meters) and weighing between 4 to 7 tons. One in particular, Doma, is the most dominant male in his group. Yet he seems to have developed this superiority as much through...