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Elephant safari, Habarana, Sri Lanka. Pics - courtesy: Gerrit, Hans, Netty and Hanneke.

Elephants of the Pinnawala orphanage are led to the river twice a day, although these are not tamed animals, they mingle with the crowds ...

"Although the number of these animals is still so immense in Ceylon, they must nevertheless have been much reduced within the last t...

The tusker named Raja participated in religious processions, of the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic, Kandy, for a period of about fifty ...

Wilpattu National Park has close to sixty lakes (Willu) and tanks  spread throughout the 131,693 hectares. It is the largest and one of...

A night visit by ' short tusks ' at Yala National Park. Pics : By courtesy, Ashan Little Adventures

A few more years of walking with a limp, with the enormous weight of the body heaving on the left, front foot, will bring about total imm...

Living in herds, friendly interactions among elephants is a common  sight.  Elephants show affection by gentle rumbling and 'touchi...

Pics by : Nelsonlanka Sony  DSC H7 First Day Cover     : By courtesy, Ana Pics optimized by : Gerrit van Pommer...

The skeleton of a young elephant on display at Pinnawela, Sri Lanka. Note the absence of trunk bones - the trunk is made up of muscles ...

Captured in 1945 at the age of five, this elephant was renowned as the Asian elephant with the longest tusks. This elephant has participate...

Visitors to Sri Lanka to Sri Lanka rarely miss an elephant ride, a quick safari through the jungle and across the lake. Pics by : Ger...

Visitors to Sri Lanka rarely miss an elephant ride, a quick safari through the jungle and across the lake. Pics by : Gerrit,Netty,Hans...

Esala Perahera [ the festival of the Sacred Tooth Relic ] is the grand  festival  of Esala held in Sri Lanka in late July or early August a...

On average, newborn calves stand about 1 m (3 ft.) high and weigh 120 kg  (264 lb.) at birth.   Newborn Asian elephant calves weigh about 91...

  The  tusks   of an elephant are its second upper  incisors . Tusks grow continuously;  an adult male's tusks grow about 18 cm (7 in)...

 " Land mines were designed for two main uses: to create defensive tactical  barriers (such as protecting a unit's flanks agai...