African Elephant Sketches

Elephants are big! But as we see in this 'elephant train' above (drawn in Amboseli NP), the babies can walk under their mothers' bellies.

Elephants love trees, to scratch on and eat, but trees don't like Elephants quite so much, though their seeds can be spread in the Elephants' boluses. The tree in this drawing will, inevitably, give way to the weight of the Elephant.

While elephants are wandering about their daily business they are impressive, but generally passive. When they get angry, as this bull on the bank of Lake Nzelekela in Selous NP did, succeeds in making itself much bigger, especially as it is much above my eye level (from a boat on the water surface). By spreading its ears and trumpetting at full volume, he becomes an intimidating and awesome 'monster'.