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Bull Elephant in Tsavo - 88526b+ by Jen Hall Via Flickr: Tomorrow is Save the Elephant Day! A day set aside each year to raise awareness for the threats elephants face and to celebrate them and just how AMAZING they are! 

Tsavo Bull Elephant 6182b+ by Jen Hall Via Flickr: I just love elephants and I sure took a lot of pictures of them on this last trip. This bull was so impressive and beautiful. I loved our few minutes with him.

Rx For the Egomaniac by David & Shiela Glatz Via Flickr: For a long time, we've considered nature an ideal prescription for the arrogant, self-centered, or egomaniac human. When we encountered - face to face - this enormous African Elephant (Loxodonta africana), we thought he could provide valuable perspective to such a human. Towering over our boat, 10-13 ft (3.2–4 m) tall at the shoulder and weighing 10,000 - 13,000 lb (4,700–6,000 kg), he quickly established to us just how small and insignificant we are. Also unlike humans, he went about his feeding barely even looking at us. A gentle giant, in this moment anyway.