"Safe and Secure" 2005

African Elephants by David Dancey-Wood.

This is a limited edition of just 295 prints, signed and numbered by David.
The print size is 350mm x 268mm.

This image is a lovely moment when the baby is so young that he is dwarfed by his mother, and yet you get the feeling that he is so safe and secure where he is.                                                                                                                                                                                      
              




I love this image. You can sense the motherliness and the sense that the baby feels secure where it is.
Elephants are beautiful! They really are very caring for their families. Which is obviously due to their groups being led by a matriarch. Vince De Luca.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


African elephants are the species of elephants in the genus Loxodonta, one of the two existing genera in Elephantidae. Although it is commonly believed that the genus was named by Georges Cuvier in 1825, Cuvier spelled it Loxodonte. An anonymous author romanized the spelling to Loxodonta and the ICZN recognizes this as the proper authority.

African elephants are bigger than Asian elephants. Males stand 3.64 meters (12 ft) tall at the shoulder and weigh 5455 kg (12,000 lbs), while females stand 3 meters (10 ft) and weigh 3636 kg to 4545 kg (8,000 to 11,000 lbs). However, males can get as big as 15,000 lbs (6800 kg).

Poaching significantly reduced the population of Loxodonta in certain regions during the 20th century. An example of this poaching pressure is in the eastern region of Chad—elephant herds there were substantial as recently as 1970, with an estimated population of 400,000; however, by 2006 the number had dwindled to about 10,000. The African elephant nominally has governmental protection, but poaching is still a serious issue.

Human encroachment into or adjacent to natural areas where bush elephants occur has led to recent research into methods of safely driving groups of elephants away from humans, including the discovery that playback of the recorded sounds of angry honey bees are remarkably effective at prompting elephants to flee an area. Some elephant communities have grown so large, in Africa, that some communities have resorted to culling large amounts to help sustain the ecosystem.


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