Thulani…

… means ‘the quiet one’ in isiZulu. This is a very apt name for one of our oldest and largest Elephant bulls.

If you look carefully at this pictures you can see him dribbling urine from his penial shief (between his back legs). This means that he is in musth (heightened sexual activity period) and dribbles liquid all day.

But unlike most younger bulls this over six ton old gentleman remain quite gentle. When I encountered him last night at dusk he moved quietly swaggering past my vehicles while stopping from time to time to nibble on some trees and grasses.

PS: He is partially wet in this picture as he had just mudded himself at a small waterhole.

Technical data: Canon R6 with RF lens f4-6.3/24-240mm | ISO 3200 | 1/750sec | f6.3 | ev+0 | 100mm | WB 6500K | AV Mode | Crop to 10% of original image

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