Comments on: South Africa 7 — A Memory of Elephants

By: Connie C

Connie C — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 13:20:19 +0000

Sad, sad, sad….

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/15/satao-the-elephant-killed_n_5497799.html

By: CCA19

CCA19 — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 06:30:58 +0000

You have a beautiful family, MM. First time to see your daughter, she has grown from the back shots of her from the past. She’s pretty and looks more of you than the Mrs. What a vacation you had! It truly is a trip of a lifetime!

By: Marketman

Marketman — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 05:08:11 +0000

belle, hahaha, like father like daughter?! She has always been dogged with that kind of comment, like “OMG, you look exactly like your dad”… which I suppose could be a bizarre thing…

By: belle

belle — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 05:05:23 +0000

Your daughter looks like your mini-me.

By: Lee

Lee — Fri, 06 Jun 2014 23:20:19 +0000

I like the second shot of the two elephants. Beautiful lighting, nice cast shadows of branches on the elephant skin. It looks like a pachyderm pre-nup photoshoot.

By: Betchay

Betchay — Fri, 06 Jun 2014 13:17:45 +0000

Amazing elephants!

By: Footloose

Footloose — Fri, 06 Jun 2014 08:57:49 +0000

What apparently got Juan Carlos into his current trouble was that he went on an elephant hunting trip two years ago. That he was in the company of a woman who was not the queen and the junket was underwritten by a Saudi businessman were just the icing on the cake. I say anyone who goes on a trip to kill elephants for sport and suffers a fall and then suffers another fall getting forced to abdicate his kingdom got his just deserts.

By: Khew

Khew — Fri, 06 Jun 2014 05:58:11 +0000

Perhaps not exactly like fish in a barrel but I would imagine 50 years to a century ago, spotting African wildlife would have felt quite similar. Throw a stone and you’d hit a leopard. Turn to your left and a herd of elephants is staring at you. Hey, what’s that underneath the nearby tree – a pride of lions. A dark mass at the river further down – why, it’s a huge herd of buffalo. And if there was literally a crashing sound, you’d bet the culprits were rhinos on a rampage.

By: Connie C

Connie C — Fri, 06 Jun 2014 05:21:48 +0000

Truly a privilege for MM and family to witness these special creatures in their natural habitat.

Your last photo shows a happy family with handsome smiles, seemingly unaware of the danger behind , the behemoth , though not in a dangerous stance giving the impression of charging in your direction.

If there is any animal whose sense of family, social development and relationships , and life span parallel our own, it is the elephant. They even share such emotional traits as grieving and shed tears like us. Other than Footloose , the elephant’s remarkable memory far surpasses ours, perhaps required by their long life span ( they can live up to 80 years!).Sadly, because of commercial demand for ivory their numbers have dwindled from a 3 million population in Africa down to 250,000 over the last 30 years.

httpss://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/html/debate.html

By: Dragon

Dragon — Fri, 06 Jun 2014 04:47:05 +0000

The first full shot of the Teen – pretty!