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At the end of our morning drive, we passed a young (5 years) elephant lost and distressed. Steve thought it had stayed in the wallow after its mother insisted on leaving. Eventually, through smell and distress cries, it should be able to reunite with its family; meanwhile it was vulnerable to predation.
Steve explained that wallows start as holes from ground termites. Then increasingly large anim...
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Isabel Gibson
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Wow! Great shots. And a great opportunity to be close to so many wild animals that they started to fade into the background, as it were. I guess we get accustomed to anything. With stops like the Morani Centre, your tour was clearly much more than a see-it/photograph-it tour (not that there's anything wrong with that). Your guides were clearly knowledgeable and focused on transferring some of that knowledge and appreciation.