Sunday, 30 September 2012
Elephas falconeri startled by territorial swan
An imagined scene from the forthcoming Pygmy Elephants book - the smallest known pygmy elephant, Elephas falconeri, had no known predators but may well have got too close to a bad-tempered swan occasionally, as in this encounter at the edge of a shallow lake somewhere in Sicily half a million years ago.
Image copyright Matt Salusbury
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