Sentences with phrase «elephant herd»

While observing an elephant herd, Ming writes:

Guests are often thrilled by the late afternoon sighting of the elephant herd passing by.

An elephant herd crosses the road just aheas of us; we see zebras, giraffes, waterbucks and a white rhino with calf.

In Pilanesberg an elephant herd crosses the road and white rhinoes rummage about, but in Marakele the game hides behind thorny bushes.

But each time my brother and I laid eyes on an elephant herd making its way across the road or a giraffe bending over to eat the leaves of trees, it was magical.

«It is safe to say orphaned ostrich Pea most definitely believes she is part of the elephant herd and little Jotto is more than happy to enjoy a cuddle with his feathered friend,» wrote DSWT.

Their elephant herd, rescued by Lawrence, shared Françoise's grief at his passing but over time forged a new relationship with her.

Roy's outstanding new offering allows readers to walk alongside the newest addition to an African elephant herd and learn just what it takes to be an elephant.

Eliza and her pet chimp Darwin face a challenge when they learn that poachers plan to kill an elephant herd.

Stand near an elephant herd, and you may feel a strange vibration in your chest.

The South African government has relegalized the culling of elephant herds.

Heavily armed criminals pepper elephant herds with bullets, often killing dedicated, protective park rangers in the process.

This finding underscores a predicament in protecting the oldest members of dwindling elephant herds.

Okay we admit, we insta - stalked Margherita Missoni on her safari honeymoon and loved her outfits as much as her pictures of elephant herds.

On board one such vessel, the captain's log includes the tusks and legs of elephant herds; rubies, emeralds, topaz; fragrant mountains of cinnamon, cardamom, mustard seeds; forests of bony, teak, and sandalwood; screeching peacocks; caged and pacing leopards; ten - foot - long monitor lizards whipping their razor tails; barrels of fermented coconut toddy; the jewel - encrusted thrones of Kandyan kings; the weapons of Chola warriors; priceless texts in Pali and Sanskrit, Sinhala and Tamil.

As the world's largest land mammal, elephants are designed for almost constant movement, and wild elephant herds easily travel over thirty miles a day on soft soil and varied terrains.

Deeper into the park is a large rocky outcrop with a raised lookout on top where we were able to both take in the setting sun and look out below for elephant herds, one of which which we luckily spotted further off down the road.

Mvuu Lodge takes its name from the hippos in the river (mvuu means «hippo» in Chichewa), but though said hippos are certainly numerous, it's the size of the elephant herds which is most impressive.

Seek out some of Africa's most incredible wildlife — from elephant herds and tree - climbing lions to rare black and white rhinos.

Embark on a full - day wildlife safari drive in the park, which is home to large elephant herds, lions, and rare African wild dogs.

He has sent clients to a mobile camp in Botswana and a hard - to - reach national park in Chad, where conservationists have brought elephant herds back from the brink.

Somalisa Camp is set in the heart of the Hwange National Park which is known as the land of the giants because of the big elephant herds that inhabit it.

Set against a cliff above the Bushman's River, the views are breathtaking, including the very best of the Eastern Cape bushveld and the afternoon sighting of elephant herds.

Experience the majesty of elephant herds in the rolling expanses of the Namibian Desert on this incredible family experience.

Chobe is one of Botswana's premier game parks, renowned for its large elephant herds.

Botswana's Chobe National Park is a prolific year - round wildlife area renowned for buffalo and elephant herds, with big cats most visible in the dry season (May - Oct) when the wildlife concentrates around water.

Chobe National Park, one of Africa's most prolific wildlife areas, is renowned for large buffalo and elephant herds, lion and zebra.

I spoke this morning with Christy (also the author of an amazing portrait of the global reptile smuggling trade, «The Lizard King «-RRB- and asked him if — in his three years of reporting — he saw any path that could change prospects for Africa's assailed elephant herds.

We are more like the celebrated Eentsy Weentsy Spider than elephant herds, however well supplied with grannies.

Save the Elephants has long used Google Earth as part of their tools in tracking and managing elephant herds, so when they wanted a way to bring more awareness to Samburu and the work being done there, Google stepped in and offered their Street View trekker technology to document the reserve.

Not exact matches

But she does so to stop a stampeding herd of elephants.

From the story: Beginning in May, the government will lift a 13 - year ban on elephant culls, which are usually carried out by shooting entire herds, including....

They have successfully hand raised over 150 infant elephants and returned them to the wild when they are old enough to join local wild herds.

The best way to stop that nonsense is to get the fellow into a hell of a good fight, into a big herd of buffalo or elephant.

Climbing into the redclay hills, the Toyota's deeply lugged tires slip - sliding as if in grease, we came upon a herd of elephants.

Elmer lives with a herd of elephants.

The prince says that he wants to see an end to the ivory trade, which could wipe out what remains of herds of African and Asian elephants, not just for this generation but also for his son and his son's children.

In modern elephants, herds of females and young live together, led by an experienced female, whereas males are more likely to live in bachelor groups or alone.

Older elephants that are near death do not leave their herd and instinctively direct themselves toward a specific location known as an elephants» graveyard to die.

Elephants caring for a crippled herd member seem to show empathy.

During a cull, a helicopter pilot herds an elephant family into a tight bunch.

Park officials typically shipped them to other parks that lacked elephants or had smaller populations to increase the herds, because elephants are popular with tourists.

Their footprint trails veer in unison, implying that the animals turned together as a herd, somewhat like modern elephants or migrating geese.

The Gourma elephants are believed to be the last of the herds that once ranged across northern Africa and into the Atlas Mountains.

Some wild animals even show what could be construed as grief: dolphins will carry the body of their dead calves with them, and elephants will revisit the bones of lost herd members for years after they die.

Another hypothesis blames prehistoric humans, whose improved weapons and hunting techniques allowed them to wipe out whole herds of elephants and mammoths (Science, 8 June 2001, p. 1888).

Elephants from zoos would stand in for mammoths and mastodons, and herds of buffalo and wild horses are already on hand to step back into their Pleistocene places.

Many African herds are in serious danger: A recent survey of savanna elephant populations estimated that poachers killed 30,000 animals annually between 2007 and 2014, reducing the population to fewer than 400,000.

Using fertility, mortality, and growth data collected in Kenya's Amboseli National Park, where researchers have studied elephants since 1972, they constructed a virtual herd of 1360 elephants.

Can young mammoths be reared successfully by a herd of their close relatives, Asian elephants?