Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Post cards from Kabini - elephas maximus

Wildlifer, conservationist, traveller and writer Arati rao from Bangalore sends us these post cards from Kabini





Scenes from a lovely herd of 2 adult females, 2 babies, one juvenile on the banks of the Kabini.





A second herd with a very protective matriarch and a mom-baby and a few other adult females and juveniles.





The matriarch indulges in a glorious bamboo dust bath



The protective matriarch and the mom shield the baby



The baby is in between





The wall - so close to us that my 70-300mm lens was cutting the legs off - i had to shrink all the way back to get them in the frame. they were not threatening, just gently urging us away :)



Portrait of the mom



The reassuring trunk-communication between the matriarch and the mom

1 comments:

Uma Bharath (nee Jagannath) said...

Lovely post and amazng B&W pics of the gentle giants! Thanks Karthik for mentioning this..... the world of nature looks even more breath-taking in black and white!