African elephants

So he will be hiking through the, through the rainforest where there are so many animals that will fuck you up.

Forest elephants, humongous gorillas, chimpanzees, mountain gorillas, African forest elephants, African elephants, western lowland gorillas, gorillas, eastern lowland gorillas, bonobos, hippos.

Fucking hippos.

Now...

And then within a year of, there was a bit of a delay with all, you know, bits and bobs happening.

But within a year of that, I was happy to see the arrival and the introduction of three African elephants from two zoos in the UK and one zoo in Europe.

Since then, I have just sort of At the beginning, I just trained on the job under a very good, you know, solid elephant team leader back then who I owe a lot to, who kind of gave me my background in elephant keeping and gave me my sort of like foot in the door, my first proper opportunities to do, you know, all of your bread and butter elephant work, which was brilliant.

So she was there managing the team for, I think, probably six or seven years.

And then the African elephant, only up until recently, was only seen as the African elephant, which is insane, you know, Africa being such a large continent.

So the African savannah elephant, which is what I would hazard a guess at most people have seen in a zoo as an African elephant, are coming from many countries in the East, South and West of Africa.

Generally speaking, you'd be talking South African elephants being seen in zoos from imports in the 80s and 90s.

So in the wild, they're endangered.

Yeah, yeah.

Uh, Jory says, "An orca, a grizzly bear, an African elephant, a tiger, a moose, and a chimpanzee.

Not sure how I'd go collecting them all, especially the orca, but that's what I'd ideally like." I feel like orca would actually be kind of easy.

Well, a kill- an orca, a killer whale, is famously the most dangerous predator in the ocean.

Uh, um, a hippo and a big ass wolf.

That's from Daniel Simons.

Cameron Murdoch, a pistol shrimp, African elephant, giant Pacific octopus.

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there are, there, there are like, you know, amen- uh, uh, amendments or, or mainly asterisks where it's like African elephant possibly crepuscular when o- when near-

Yeah

... humans, otherwise diurnal, yada, yada.

Yes, they did.

Today, we have two main types of elephants left, African and Asian, and they are giants.

How do you tell them apart? Are they really that different? Very different.

African bush elephants are the biggest land animals on Earth.

A male can grow up to 13 feet tall at the shoulder and weigh 14,000 pounds.

That's as heavy as three pickup trucks.

Whoa,

13 feet tall? That's taller than our house's first floor.

But I'm going to read another one of our poems, one that I wrote the first part on and you wrote the second part on.

And let's share the one about the African elephants.

It also is one that is talking about, it gives us another view of keystone creatures, basically.

African elephants.

Remember the keystone star story? Keystone creatures don't just prey on others in their environment.

There are other ways they keep a system alive and healthy.

There are a handful of icons.

I mean, the African elephant is one that, you know, everybody recognizes that.

Tigers, lions, and bears.

Oh, my.