Africa Wild

Would the bow and arrow have been used to bring down the ellie....looks very ineffectual!

Hi Flutterby, I think the bow was carried by one of the trackers from the local people where the hunt must have taken place - indicating that this elephant was from a really far-off outlying district where very few Europeans ever ventured.
Could of cause have been hunted with a poisoned arrow and that the people posing with the tusks actually bought the tusks from the hunter.

Not giant tuskers but no-where else to post this :-
( I am counting 81 elephant on this photo - have a close look and see if correct.)

Like being In Addo

The previous photo got cropped when loaded to AW so not all elies were shown - here is a subsequent photo with a similar number of elephants :-

Still looks like Addo, but the elephants have bigger tusks

Some lovely big tuskers there!

Amazing congregation

magnificent