Elephant Pictures

Mommy and baby together.






This dog ran and grabbed a chicken and killed it, but let it die really slowly. He looked pretty proud of himself though.





2 elephants play fighting with each other.










Baby elephant playing in the mud right after being washed in the river.









Baby elephants playing in the river.









Some of the elephants just follow each other around like this. There was one really sad one that was blind in both eyes from being mistreated. She had delivered a stillborn baby one day and was made to go back to work the next day (elephants mourn the dead though), and when she refused to work, the handlers poked her and shot things at her, and blinded her in one eye. That made her very angry and she acted even worse, so the man in charge decided to teach her a lesson by shooting an arrow in the other eye. Anyways, when she got to the reserve, another elephant took her under her wing and the blind one just follows her everywhere.









Lots of the elephants got tired of us feeding them too slowly, so they just tried to pull their bin of food over.











Me feeding an elephant. I was really bad at first and she kept trying to get her neighbour's food instead. Her mahout (the guy that takes care of her and works with her everyday) showed me how to feed her properly - I was trying to give her 1 cucumber at a time, but she needed at least 3. The elephants also ate entire bunches of bananas all at once.