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tusker
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Copyright: krishnagopal Kodoth (dugulk) Silver Star Critiquer/Silver Note Writer [C: 11 W: 5 N: 46] (317)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-01-09
Categories: Mammals
Camera: Canon Powershot A620
Exposure: f/1.4, 1/1250 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2006-01-22 3:00
Viewed: 1164
Points: 2
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
shot from the roof of the Tree Top lodge. when two tuskers paid us a visit and to drink water from the watering hole. this shot was taken as it was running towards the water hole drving away the buffalos and the wart hogs.

Scientific classification

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Proboscidea
Family: Elephantidae
Genus: Loxodonta
Cuvier, 1825

Loxodonta is a genus in Elephantidae, the family of elephants. It was named by Georges Cuvier in 1825.

Fossils from Loxodonta have only been found in Africa, where they developed in the middle Pliocene.


Species

Loxodonta adaurora, extinct, developed into to the modern African elephant.
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Krishna Gopal,
Loved your notes.
Lovely shot of a REAL WILD elephant.
Friendly greetings,
Mario from COLD COLD Canada.

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