Elephant Nearly Destroys Camera-trap
Category: Mammals, camera-trap | Date: Aug 15 2008 | By: tumaren
A mixed group of female elephants with young visited one of our small dams recently at 8 in the morning. That was nice and we managed to get a number of nice images of them as they drank, many images framed by the legs and belly of a foreground animal.
Then one hour later, clearly tracking the movements of the females, a lone bull passed. The camera-trap took this one image of him passing at 9:09am
The next image at 9:22 was more of a self portrait. Clearly, after kicking over the camera, the ele thought the lens looked very interesting.
The Bull then sat and photographed himself dozens of times as he looked down at the odd machine. When he finally left the camera it was still facing upward and for the remainder of the day it shot hundreds of images of the passing clouds. Elephants are very cheeky.
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2 Responses to “Elephant Nearly Destroys Camera-trap”
sheryl, washington dc, on 15 Aug 2008
I love this post and the photos. Who knew eles are so cheeky? That’s awesome. Sorry about the wasted photos, but it’d be fun to see more of the self portraits.
s.
TheTeach, Seattle, on 15 Aug 2008
A fun morning of foolishness for a bull elephant on patrol. Great images of a light-hearted event in the wilds. He has no idea of the captivated audience watching from continents afar. As for the new camera angle, skywatching is a favored passtime for some. Super to be visited by the
intelligent behemoths as they mosy on by. Such a delight. Let us make sure this will always be the case.
Best Wishes.
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