Parade!

I love this picture, taken last Sunday. A herd of Elephants had just finished drinking at the small pond in front of the Thanda Safari Lodge when they paraded in single file up the hillside. It was a cloudy and rainy day, which gives this image a rather eerie quality.

Elephants drink a lot of water. A large bull can take in over 200 liters (50 gallons) in just five minutes. They use their trunk like a syringe to squirt water into their mouth. The trunk is an elongated nose and not a straw-like device. And as you know one cannot drink through ones nose!

Technical data: Canon R6 with RF lens f4-6.3/24-240mm | ISO 1600 | 1/125sec | f6.3 | ev+0 | 240mm | WB 6500K | AV Mode | Crop to 50% of original image

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