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| Category: | Nature
Mixed Media
Photography
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Posted: | September 13, 2012 |
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Artist Notes
Asian elephants, smaller than their African cousins, are highly endangered. The elephant is Earth's largest land animal, although the Asian elephant is slightly smaller than its African cousin. Asian elephants can be identified by their smaller, rounded ears. (An African elephant's ears resemble the continent of Africa.)
Elephant ears radiate heat to help keep these large animals cool, but sometimes that isn't enough. Elephants are fond of water and enjoy showering by sucking water into their trunks and spraying it all over themselves.
An elephant's trunk is actually a long nose with many functions. It is used for smelling, breathing, trumpeting, drinking, and also for grabbing thingsā??especially a potential meal. The trunk alone contains about 100,000 different muscles. Asian elephants have a fingerlike feature on the end of their trunk that they can use to grab small items. (African elephants have two.)
This was taken at Miami's Metro Zoo (so named when the photo was taken). He was having a blast blowing dust onto his back. I think cuteness is just eminating off this guy.
Fujifilm finepix; 1/85s; f/4.8; ISO 100
Added vignette only
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eileen0204
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