Wednesday, April 23, 2014

The Enormous Elephant alphabet time

Caution:
Some photos are graphic in nature



E is for Elephant



by Gregory Colbert
lifeisbeautifulthatway.blogspot.com



"She owned the road
as an elephant owns the veldt
and like a big blue elephant
moved with massive grace
and dignity."

- David Drake, author



www.reimaginationprints.etsy.com


elephant in San Diego Zoo


mixed media sculpture, Israel
www.OrnaArtHeart.etsy.com


"Elephants, it turns out,
are surprisingly stealthy."

- Thomas French, Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives



- but maybe not as babies!!!



E is for Elephant print
www.CaseyGirard.etsy.com


www.lewfoster.etsy.com


www.JoArtyJo.etsy.com


"Elephants can sense danger.
They're able to detect an approaching 
tsunami or earthquake before it hits."

 - Jennifer Richard Jacobson, Small as an Elephant



collage by www.AcorntoZebraCollage.etsy.com



stained glass coloring page
courtesy Dover Books


pendant by MissingPiecesStudio.etsy.com


"We admire elephants in part
because they demonstrate what we consider 
the finest human traits:
empathy
self-awareness
social intelligence.
But the way we treat them puts on display 
the very worst 
of human behavior."

- Graydon Carter

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/elephants.html


credit: unknown


Shriner's Circus, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
www.albuquerquer.about.jpeg


Color-Your-Own.com


Asian Elephants in India
www.worldwildlife.org

elephant in Indian Zoo
page by John Platt
www.blogs.scientificamerican.com


Beating an elephant into submission for tourism
Thailand Elephant Tourism
www.asianelephantstoday.com



"Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal
on the face of the Earth.
They are creative,
altruistic
and kind."

- Ingrid Newkirk



vintage elephant head clip, courtesy Dover



www.melstepp01.wordpress.com





courtesy Dover


www.keepbusy.net



"It's estimated that across Africa
100 elephants are killed for their tusks
every day.
It takes nothing more than simple math
to get to what that adds up to
in a year,
and it's a distressing figure."

- Graydon Carter


Sept, 2012
www.burrard-lucas.com


confiscated tusks
www.ripoffreport.com


elephant in the grass
www.rgbstock.com


'Elephant Love'
www.evilwerewolfpirate.deviantart.com


a road roller crushes confiscated elephant tusks
worth $10 million, 
Quezone City, Metro Manila, 6-2013
www.globalnation.inquirer.net


"I don't know how many lions and leopards 
I've shot.
I've shot two elephants, which is enough -
never again.
It's a melancholy and moving thing 
to hunt an elephant.
It's like shooting an old man."

- Wilbur Smith


www.vet.cornell.edu


www.en.wikipedia.org


"Elephants love reunions.
They recognize one another
after years and years of separation
and greet each other 
with wild, boisterous joy.
There's bellowing and trumpeting,
ear flapping and rubbing.
Twines entwine."

- Jennifer Richard Jacobson,
Small as an Elephant


greeting at a mudbath
photo credit: Sigfried Wallach, c. 1998
www.netshake.com


Mila greets Mary, after being alone in a circus for 30 years.
Elephants don't forget.
San Diego Zoo
www.dailymail.co.uk


endangered species Sumatran Elephants greet each other
www.glbrain.com


Shirley and Jenny meet again after being apart for 27 years.
Tennessee Elephant Sanctuary
www.greenme.it


"It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant.
It... is not heroic,
and certainly it is not easy;
it is just one of those preposterous things 
that men do
like putting a dam across a great river,
one tenth of whose volume could engulf
the whole of mankind
without disturbing the domestic life
of a single catfish."

- Beryl Markham, West with the Night



baby elephant trying to wake dead mother
thesun.co.uk

Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania
www.bangngangang.com



"One hundred Pounder", Mozambique,
presumably refers to each tusk.
www.newswatch.nationalgeographic.com

"Killing wildlife and trading in illegal rhino horn and elephant tusks are only misdemeanors in Mozambique.
Game wardens get $96 per month.
One elephant tusk is worth a minimum of $10,000 
in China or Korea, as an aphrodisiac."

- Sam Sloan

elephant coloring page
credit unknown


"I meant what I said
and I said what I meant -
An elephant's faithful,
one hundred percent!"

- Dr. Seuss

en.wikipedia.org


African elephants 'Follow the Leader"
www.elephant-world.com

I hope today's blog has inspired you,
touched you
and convinced you to be more active
in the preservation of these beautiful
giant beasts.

Bizarro elephant cartoon 2-19-2007
othernationsjustice.org.com


elephant trunk
www.listverse.com


'til next time,
inkspired

www.inkspired.etsy.com
www.collagepaperpainting.etsy.com
www.inkspiredmusings.blogspot.com
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