Caution:
Some photos are graphic in nature
E is for Elephant
by Gregory Colbert
lifeisbeautifulthatway.blogspot.com
"She owned the road
as an elephant owns the veldt
and like a big blue elephant
moved with massive grace
and dignity."
- David Drake, author
www.reimaginationprints.etsy.com
elephant in San Diego Zoo
mixed media sculpture, Israel
www.OrnaArtHeart.etsy.com
"Elephants, it turns out,
are surprisingly stealthy."
- Thomas French, Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives
E is for Elephant print
www.CaseyGirard.etsy.com
www.lewfoster.etsy.com
www.JoArtyJo.etsy.com
"Elephants can sense danger.
They're able to detect an approaching
tsunami or earthquake before it hits."
- Jennifer Richard Jacobson, Small as an Elephant
collage by www.AcorntoZebraCollage.etsy.com
stained glass coloring page
courtesy Dover Books
pendant by MissingPiecesStudio.etsy.com
"We admire elephants in part
because they demonstrate what we consider
the finest human traits:
empathy
self-awareness
social intelligence.
But the way we treat them puts on display
the very worst
of human behavior."
- Graydon Carter
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/elephants.html
credit: unknown
Shriner's Circus, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
www.albuquerquer.about.jpeg
Color-Your-Own.com
Asian Elephants in India
www.worldwildlife.org
elephant in Indian Zoo
page by John Platt
www.blogs.scientificamerican.com
Beating an elephant into submission for tourism
Thailand Elephant Tourism
www.asianelephantstoday.com
"Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal
on the face of the Earth.
They are creative,
altruistic
and kind."
- Ingrid Newkirk
vintage elephant head clip, courtesy Dover
www.melstepp01.wordpress.com
courtesy Dover
www.keepbusy.net
"It's estimated that across Africa
100 elephants are killed for their tusks
every day.
It takes nothing more than simple math
to get to what that adds up to
in a year,
and it's a distressing figure."
- Graydon Carter
Sept, 2012
www.burrard-lucas.com
confiscated tusks
www.ripoffreport.com
elephant in the grass
www.rgbstock.com
'Elephant Love'
www.evilwerewolfpirate.deviantart.com
a road roller crushes confiscated elephant tusks
worth $10 million,
Quezone City, Metro Manila, 6-2013
www.globalnation.inquirer.net
"I don't know how many lions and leopards
I've shot.
I've shot two elephants, which is enough -
never again.
It's a melancholy and moving thing
to hunt an elephant.
It's like shooting an old man."
- Wilbur Smith
www.vet.cornell.edu
www.en.wikipedia.org
They recognize one another
after years and years of separation
and greet each other
with wild, boisterous joy.
There's bellowing and trumpeting,
ear flapping and rubbing.
Twines entwine."
- Jennifer Richard Jacobson,
Small as an Elephant
greeting at a mudbath
photo credit: Sigfried Wallach, c. 1998
www.netshake.com
Mila greets Mary, after being alone in a circus for 30 years.
Elephants don't forget.
San Diego Zoo
www.dailymail.co.uk
endangered species Sumatran Elephants greet each other
www.glbrain.com
Shirley and Jenny meet again after being apart for 27 years.
Tennessee Elephant Sanctuary
www.greenme.it
"It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant.
It... is not heroic,
and certainly it is not easy;
it is just one of those preposterous things
that men do
like putting a dam across a great river,
one tenth of whose volume could engulf
the whole of mankind
without disturbing the domestic life
of a single catfish."
- Beryl Markham, West with the Night
baby elephant trying to wake dead mother
thesun.co.uk
Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania
www.bangngangang.com
"One hundred Pounder", Mozambique,
presumably refers to each tusk.
www.newswatch.nationalgeographic.com
"Killing wildlife and trading in illegal rhino horn and elephant tusks are only misdemeanors in Mozambique.
Game wardens get $96 per month.
One elephant tusk is worth a minimum of $10,000
in China or Korea, as an aphrodisiac."
- Sam Sloan
elephant coloring page
credit unknown
"I meant what I said
and I said what I meant -
An elephant's faithful,
one hundred percent!"
- Dr. Seuss
en.wikipedia.org
African elephants 'Follow the Leader"
www.elephant-world.com
I hope today's blog has inspired you,
touched you
and convinced you to be more active
in the preservation of these beautiful
giant beasts.
Bizarro elephant cartoon 2-19-2007
othernationsjustice.org.com
elephant trunk
www.listverse.com
'til next time,
inkspired
www.inkspired.etsy.com
www.collagepaperpainting.etsy.com
www.inkspiredmusings.blogspot.com
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