Tour Guide, Liwonde, Malawi
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THE LEFT CHOPED-EARED ELEPHANT & PLAYFUL BABIES
This Female Elephant in the Dry Season like eating a Fever tree near hide at
LEFT CHOPPED-EARED ELEPHANT visiting Camp every year, our friend.
30/09/2010 My LONG TIME BEST FRIEND
This Elephant is a very good mother; she was looking after a few babies for her friends which were still eating the reeds along the Shire River. She was about two hundred meters away from the river.
She likes visiting the Camp from evening to early morning, Every year she spend some weeks feeding near the camp. Little is known how she lost part of her ear, might have been an accident with a crocodile when she was young. As elephants when they are young the feebleness can attracts Hyenas as well.
This week and today this elephant is near old makhanga north of Mvuu Wilderness Lodge during early morning boat safari. She carefully do not step on the Fever tree thorns but pick thorns and eat amusing!!
21/09/2014 SHE IS NOW Nellie the mama Elephant.
From yesterday she is hanging around the same area along Ntagai River near Shire River. She is a very good friend of me. I have had a lot of close encounters with this elephant as it feeds while its babies play near her.
One day some time in 2010 Nellie the mama elephant she stopped her friend from a breeding herd to charge at my Game Viewer on a game drive north of Air Strip by holding the big female with her trunk. Later on she led the whole breeding herd crossing the road in front of us and we were safe.
Nellie the mama Elephant today 21/09/2014 at South Ntangai.
Today with Saunder X 7A2C we thought to find a proper name for this Left chopped eared Elephant as she appeared for the second time this morning. We also enjoyed her company yesterday at her favourite afternoon feeding area. She seem to have young ones very often, she must be very fertile, Nellie is having another small calf already. A small baby elephant was still staggering behind as I took this photo.