Red Elephants: Video
Published by tracker 1 year, 7 months ago Tags: africa, animal kingdom, blogumentary, bush knowledge, conservation, documentary, ecotraining, education, elephants, flickr, GLTP, gonarezhou, Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, malilangwe, narrowcasting, Open Content Alliance, pamushana, peace parks, video, waterhole, wildcasting, wildlife, youtube, zimbabwe..Although Elephant look a bit thick skinned, they need to undertake a daily skincare routine to prevent any parasites and flies from biting them. Rolling around and plastering themselves with mud is one way, dusting themselves with nice cool sand, another. This also serves as a coolant during hot summer days.
Elephants will gather around a shady spot where the sand is not as hot and dig into the soil to get to the even cooler sand to dust their bodies.
They just simply suck up a load of sand into their trunks and spray it where it is needed. Surely, a great way for keeping cool when water isn’t that close by…
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Wonderful. When I watch these extrordinary snippets of elephant (and lion) socialization, the silly arguments by zoos that their animals are pampered, and never have want for anything becomes clear. The elephant go about their day totally involved with the basics, but always incorporating rituals of family, friendship and bonding. It makes me so sad for the two lonely eles in our zoo who are not even of the same species. (One african, one asian) The African is pregnant, and has not one relative or friend to help her. Cynthia