Gentle #endangered giants, only <1,500 Bornean Pygmy #Elephants 🐘💔 still live in #Borneo. They're surrounded by #palmoil #deforestation and #poaching. Fight for them when you shop 👏☮️ and #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🚫#Boycott4Wildlife every day! @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/01/19/bornean-pygmy-elephant-elephas-maximus-borneensis/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
A majestic elephant with intricate golden patterns adorning its forehead is set against a vibrant pink and gold geometric background. The design blends elements of nature with ornate, symmetrical motifs. Whimsical elephant art deco art by Lisa S. Baker.
This is shameless Postgres propaganda... purposely created to be postgres propaganda :blobcat_amused:
Some time ago I had a choice, cry of powerlessness personally doing dirty work with migrations or start making memes and laugh at Postgres. I chose the latter and fanatically drew #elephants after work.
And this picture was also purposely created this way, where elephants are cute and huggable 🐘
Cartoon style of a sitting black-haired person surrounded by three blue tiny elephants. This person is wearing loose beige, blue and red robes, like on religious saint pictures and has also double halo around head. One of elephants is trying to climb on person's knees, this one has kind of golden crown on head.
Two elephants stand in lush green grass under a cloudy sky. The closer elephant is eating foliage and the elephant standing behind appears to be smiling conveying a peaceful, natural setting in the wild. As photographed in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda
On the side of the deconsecrated church of Sant'Antonin in Castello, there is something which looks like an odd bricked up opening, but it doesn't really look like a window nor a doorway.
The opening was made on March 16th, 1819, with the permission of the Patriarch, because of a slight problem with an elephant.
Africa’s elephants have been in dramatic decline for 50 years. A new study explores what can be done to save them.
From @ConversationUS: The research "put together data from 1,325 surveys of elephant populations — everything we could find — to evaluate how elephant numbers in Africa have changed."
Using high-definition camera traps on trails in Congo’s Nouabalé-Ndoki national park, Will Burrard-Lucas, a photographer for the Wildlife Conservation Society, has captured Africa’s most elusive and rarely seen animals.
Critically endangered African forest elephants, which are smaller and reproduce more slowly than their savannah cousins. Photograph: W Burrard-Lucas/Wildlife Conservation Society
As the diet of forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) is dominated by fruit, they play a crucial role in dispersing many tree species. Their main threat is poaching for the Asian ivory market.
This week's #NewBooks at the library: I chanced upon a very affordable copy of Atlas of Submarine Glacial Landforms from the #GeologicalSociety. A rare Dutch addition this week is De Thigmofiel by one of my favourite Dutch biologists, #MidasDekkers. Lastly, I offered sanctuary to a damaged copy of #Evolution and Fossil Record of African #Proboscidea from CRC Press
A top-down photo of three books lying on a small, brown, wooden table. On the left, tilted slightly to the left, is a large book: Atlas of Submarine Glacial Lanforms, showing a landscape of icebergs on its cover. In the middle, oriented straight, is a Dutch book called De Thigmofield by author Midas Dekkers, showing a photos of the head of a contented-looking cat, eyes closed, peeping out from the top of a cardboard box. On the right, tilted slightly to the right, is Evolution and Fossil Record of African Proboscidea, showing a painting of a herd of golden-brown elephants walking towards the viewer.
OK, wow! #Elephants call each other by name. Study uses AI algorithm to analyze calls in two herds of savanna 🐘 🐘 in Kenya.
The research “not only shows that elephants use specific vocalisations for each individual, but that they recognise and react to a call addressed to them while ignoring those addressed to others”, the lead study author, Michael Pardo, said.
'...when names were called out, it was often over a long distance, and when adults were addressing young elephants.
...Adults were also more likely to use names than calves, suggesting it could take years to learn this particular talent.'