Zimbabwe (part two)
The elephants in Gonarezhou National Park are known for being particularly aggressive.
There's a good reason, Two of them, actually.
One is poaching. The other is a cull of elephants performed almost two decades ago because their population was unsustainable.
The elephants remember, and are unusually aggressive toward humans as a result. They also constitute one of the heaviest concentrations of elephants in the world. Eli 24.4 and his travel partner only had a few tense encounters, but trying to drive away on narrow, rutted, steep roads is not easy.
On to the pictures. As you can see, most of them were taken through binoculars. He said the second and third photographs, of all he's ever taken, are two of his favorites.
The elephant in the last photo didn't charge them, but they wound up too close because he was hanging out at the intersection (the photograph is deceptive--they were closer than it looks). Eli said that was a particularly good stretch of road in the park. Most of them were very difficult to drive.
After Zimbabwe, he came here. Now he's in Morocco.
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