Elephant Catalog

some intersesting info regarding ellie.

Both male and Female African Elephants have tusks where as the Indian Elephant only the male has tusks. This could make it a little difficult to sex the Ellies unless there is something obvious ( if you know what I mean )

This amazing soul was identified by Elaine:

re: the ellie with deformed tusk?

this big old boy has been around for years and we saw him on the former AfriCam sites at Djuma Reserve (Neighbor to Nkorho) at the Gowrie dam..and almost always with 4 or 5 other bulls. ..we just saw him at this pan for the first time a few days ago. and i for one was very happy to see him!! and i wrote the info that i know of him with the pics that i posted..maybe the 14th or 16th march??

he has a skewed/deformed right tusk and a crippled left hind leg. And of course, no one has ever really known the way this all happened. We could all make guesses but, still never know for certain.
we were very happy to see that he was not alone, is keeping up with the gang that was there with him the other day ...and still alive and seems to be doing well.
his name was 'skewy'... and i guess it still is.

There's one lone male (probably pretty young) that we affectionately named Lonesome George, cuz he's thinking about the cute girls.

Great idea Roger ! I had a look through my pictures and found this one.

these pictures were taken on december 20, 2006

this elephant has a very distinctive notch in his right ear.

I don't have a name so I will just call him Ndlovu, which means Elephant in Zulu.

some more pics here on page 6 & 7 :
http://www.africam.com/boma/viewtopic.php?t=1724&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=75