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November 17, 2003

 

Photo: Moremi Game Reserve

Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana, 1999

Photograph by Chris Johns

Living in herds of about 20 to 40 elephants, female and juvenile elephants live a life largely separate from adult males. Bulls tend to lead solitary lives.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Africa's Wild Dogs," May 1999, National Geographic magazine)

 

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