"The Smithsonian #Zoo in Washington, D.C., will introduce a baby asian #elephant 🐘 calf to the public next Wednesday, in honor of #EarthDay. ... Linh Mai is the zoo’s first baby elephant in almost 25 years."

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Quote of the Day “The gorilla is a strict vegetarian like the elephant and buffalo — three of the four most dangerous animals in Africa. It behooves one to walk softly with vegetarians!” — Mary Hastings Bradley, On the Gorilla Trail

“The gorilla is a strict vegetarian like the elephant and buffalo — three of the four most dangerous animals in Africa. It behooves one to walk softly with vegetarians!” — Mary Hastings Bradley, On the Gorilla Trail
#BOTD #MaryHastingsBradley #Quotation #Quote #QOTD #vegetarian #danger #elephant…

Elefantes Selvagens: Gigantes do Mundo Natural | Documentário 🐘 💙💚💜🧡 @amazingnatural.bsky.social @amazingnatures.bsky.social @nature.com @elephantjournal.com @protectallwildlife.bsky.social @wwf.eu #elephant #elefantes #animals #africa #savannah

Ambiguous impulses for mental cinema!
#contemporaryArt #rubberStamp #reliefPrinting #climateActionNow #endFossilFuels #makeArtNotWar #NoRacism #noAFD #NoFascism #surrealism #dali #salvadorDali #elephant #skateBoard #dresser #drawers #spiderLegs #stilts #drippings #runnyPaint #cardinalDirections

A baby Asian Elephant next to her much larger aunt.

An Andean Bear on a tree branch.

If you visit the Smithsonian National Zoo to see the baby elephant, be sure to visit the Andean Bears while you are there. #zoo #elephant #andeanbear

TANKA
Baby elephant,
trunk torn off by hyena,
how did you survive
such a disability?
Patience, constant care and love.

PBS Nature, Becoming Elephant
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eGy...
#tanka #tankapoem #micropoetry #haiku #senryu #poetrycommunity #inkmine #elephant #animal #nature #pbs #inspiration

Smart Animals- Brainy Anthro Refs thread
all By u/ColorfulJohn on Reddit

#furry #FurryArt #anthro #alien #aquatic #big_brain #brainy #canine #dachshund #dolphin #donkey #elephant #feline #fox #genius #horse #intelligence #lizard #mammal #pig #racoon #raptor #reptile #scalie #smart #tiger #vulpine

Bitter Melephant (Bitter Melon + Elephant)

I drew my mom a Bitter Melephant for her birthday today, happy birthday momma! 🎂🎈🐘

#oc #cropcritters #crop #critter #elephant #bittermelon #talemon

Werner Herzog searches for ghost elephants in stunning new documentary Werner Herzog, Disney+ Film director Werner Herzog has always been drawn to the limits of human knowledge – to the places where science meets myth, where discovery shades into obsession. In Ghost Elephants, which premiered at last year’s Venice Film Festival, he follows conservationist Steve Boyes in Angola as he searches for a herd of elephants that may or may not exist. It is both a scientific expedition and a philosophical fable that asks what it means to chase a dream that could easily remain just that. The premise is strikingly simple. Boyes believes that there has been a sighting of a group of unusually large elephants, possibly related to the legendary Fnykvi specimen preserved at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC. Named after the engineer and big-game hunter Josef Fnykvi who shot it, it is one of the largest land mammals ever displayed and stands nearly a metre taller than the average African elephant. The elephants may be roaming the remote Bi plateau, a sparsely inhabited, wooded region roughly the size of England. For a decade, Boyes has nurtured this hypothesis, piecing together anecdotal evidence from San master trackers, whose ability to read traces in...

Werner Herzog searches for ghost elephants in stunning new documentary
->New Scientist | More on "Herzog documentary Angola ghost elephants" at BigEarthData.ai | #Elephant #Wildlife

“An Asian elephant, perhaps the one that arrived at the Jardin des Plantes in 1843, lies asleep in a small clearing in the Forest of Fontainebleau. Hints of red and yellow in the right background suggest that it is evening.”

For a belated #SaveTheElephantDay 🐘:
Antoine-Louis Barye (France, 1795-1875)
#Elephant Asleep, c.1850s-60s
Watercolor w/gum heightening on wove paper
H: 10 3/4 x W: 15 1/8 in. (27.3 x 38.4 cm)
Walters Art Museum 37.812 art.thewalters.org/object/37.812/

Wowie Zowie!!🐘 #transformation #tf #elephant #tfart

Perfect timeline cleanser 🐘💙🥰

#Elephant #Compassion #Humanity #Animals #Caretaker

Acrylic painting of an aerial view of an elephant and flamingoes at a waterhole with deep shadows. Painted in shades of orange, green, pink, and blue.

‘Late afternoon at a Yala Waterhole’, a new 9x12” painting, based on memories of my time in Sri Lanka, influenced by the aerial perspective so common in modern Australian First Nations art, which I love.
#wildlifeart #natureart #painting #acrylic #landscape #srilanka #elephant #art #nature #birds

A round shepherd's pie free standing in the centre of a white pasta bowl. with crispy textured browning on top and rosemary sprigs for garnish.

League Stream! gona try get Emerald today
www.twitch.tv/chef_nova_kn...
#twitch #leagueoflegends #riotgames #chef #elephant

The genomic impact of population connectivity and decline in Africa's elephants We analyzed a dataset of 249 whole genomes (Supplementary Data 1), including 225 newly sequenced genomes and 24 previously published genomes17,51,52. The genomes were primarily generated from biopsy tissue and blood samples collected in the 1990s for previous studies16,23,50,53. We mapped the sequencing data to two chromosome-level genome assemblies, the African savanna elephant (LoxAfr417) and the Asian elephant (mEleMax1; Vertebrate Genome Project; Bioproject: PRJNA850184). Rigorous quality control was applied to identify genomic regions with variants that could be reliably called in either reference, resulting in 1.2 billion sites available for analyses in the African savanna elephant reference and 1.3 billion sites in the Asian elephant reference. During initial quality control, 17 samples were identified as either low quality or duplicates (Supplementary Data 2). After removing these samples, the final dataset resulted in 232 elephants sequenced at an average depth of 39× when mapping to the LoxAfr4 reference, comprising 181 African savanna elephants and 51 African forest elephants from 29 locations across 17 countries (Figs. 1 and S1). Out of the 232 genomes, 207 were sequenced to more than 9.5×, and these were included in analyses requiring genotype calls. In addition, we performed imputation of missing genotypes for all 232 genomes...

The genomic impact of population connectivity and decline in Africa's elephants
->Nature | More on "Elephant genomics population connectivity decline" at BigEarthData.ai | #Elephant #Wildlife

Strange "elephant skin" rocks reveal ancient life in the dark ocean "I looked at the wrinkles and I was like, 'These aren't supposed to be in rocks like this. What the heck is going on?'" said Martindale, an associate professor at The University of Texas at Austin's Jackson School of Geosciences. Rock textures can reveal the processes that shaped them over millions of years. To Martindale, the wrinkled surface looked exactly like fossilized microbial mats. These structures form when communities of microbes grow across sediment, leaving behind distinctive patterns. In this case, the textures appeared to preserve a dense layer of microbial life that existed more than 180 million years ago during the Early Jurassic. Martindale recognized the pattern right away. During graduate school, she had studied similar textures through photos and samples shared by a lab mate who focused on microbial fossils from the Early Triassic. A Puzzle in the Wrong Place There was one major issue. The setting did not match what scientists expected. The rock layer where the wrinkles formed originated in deep ocean water, nearly 600 feet below the surface. However, scientists have long believed that these kinds of microbial wrinkle structures only formed in shallow environments. In those settings, microbes could rely on sunlight for energy...

Strange "elephant skin" rocks reveal ancient life in the dark ocean
->ScienceDaily | More on "Ancient microbial life Jurassic rocks" at BigEarthData.ai | #Ocean #Elephant #Wildlife

SEVEN vintage zoo animal buttons!
#vintage #VintageBeauties #vintagegift #plastic #buttons #zoo #animal #AnimalLovers #elephants #elephant #hippo #koalas #giraffes #Orange #Brown #kids #NoahsArk #craft #sewing #freeshipping @2Fun4Words

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Tswale, a bull elephant from Limpopo, was moved in 2025 to Bellevue Forest Reserve. After decades in captivity, he is now rewilded and in a free roaming herd.

#elephant #africa
Image; Wiktoria West. 23rd Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest

#ThrowbackThursday
Today is Save the Elephant Day.
#photography #elephant #wildlife

Today is Save the Elephant Day.
#elephant #wildlife #photography

Meg & Jack for tonight's #DriveTimeTuneage #WhiteStripes #Elephant

A list of holidays and observances for April 16th under a colorful umbrella, including Day of the Mushroom, Foursquare Day, National Bean Counters' Day, National Eggs Benedict Day, National Healthcare Decisions Day, National Librarian Day, National Orchid Day, Save The Elephant Day, and World Semicolon Day.

𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟭𝟲

• Day of the #Mushroom 🍄‍🟫
• Foursquare Day
• National Bean Counters' Day
• National #Eggs 🥚 Benedict Day
• National #Healthcare Decisions Day
• National Librarian 📚 Day
• National Orchid Day
• Save The #Elephant 🐘 Day
• World Semicolon Day

#Today

Elephant Genomes Reveal a Past of Continental Connectivity and a Future of Increasing Isolation Newswise — In the largest genomic study of African elephants to date, an international team of researchers analyzed 232 whole genomes from both savanna and forest elephants, collected across 17 African countries. This is the first large-scale, continent-wide genetic study since African elephants were recognized as two separate species. To achieve this herculean task, the researchers used samples that have been biobanked during previous genetic research more than 30 years ago and generated high-quality genomes through the iConserve program of the biotechnology company Illumina. The results, now published in Nature Communications, show genetic signs of isolation in several populations, where elephant herds have been cut off from each other due to a history of hunting, as well as growing human populations and their needs for agriculture and infrastructural developments. "Our study shows that until recently, elephants have been connected across vast distances. This freedom of movement has created genetic robustness because the populations have intermingled. Today, the picture is different. Elephants are living in a world where space is more and more restricted and some populations are becoming isolated," says the study’s lead author, Patrícia Pečnerová, assistant professor at the University of Copenhagen and Lund University. Remote areas are worst...

Elephant Genomes Reveal a Past of Continental Connectivity and a Future of Increasing Isolation
->Newswise | More on "African elephant genomics and conservation" at BigEarthData.ai | #Elephant #Wildlife

Inbreeding causing African elephants to be vulnerable to disease An international research team analyzed 232 whole genomes from both savanna and forest elephants, collected across 17 African countries.

An international research team analyzed 232 whole genomes from both savanna and forest elephants, collected across 17 African countries.

#elephants #elephant #animals #studies #wlidlife #science #research

April 16th is Save the Elephant Day. This is my acrylic painting on toned tan paper of an elephant mom being nurturing and protective of her baby. www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1124...
#mattstarrfineart #elephant #elephants #pacaderm #africanelephant

A strong gentle giant.

Happy Thursday x

#watercolour #elephant #endangered #Africa #art

🐘🐘Save The Elephant Day!🐘🐘

Today shines a light on the declining elephant population and encourages protection of these magnificent animals.

#elephants #zoos #african #indian #endangered #queenie #tillie #princesspenny #toni #nayaugparkzoo #elephant #wildanimal #jungleanimal #creature #magestic

#RSOS paper found that the community composition of wild African savanna #elephant gut microbiomes shifted according to the number of livestock within their habitat, raising conservation concerns because changes in host-associated microbiomes can be a precursor to disease: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

A silly old elephant lost in some trees.

Thompech Out of Place.

...she was always out of place, no matter where she was.

#art #artyear #watercolor #painting #elephant #Thailand #Cambodia #thegroundwassoakedinherblood

Toot...
#sketch #elephant