I was going to keep this one for mother’s day but I realised I’d forget all about it by next year so I thought it best to post it now.
It’s one I took when I was doing some work with the Elephant Help Clinic in Phuket many years ago. The baby elephant is wearing a lei because she’d just been blessed by the monks from the nearby temple.
MARI'S TRAVELS WITH HER CAMERA 
Absolutely adorable!
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Beautiful! And we’ll done for your role as described to Sarah – a very worthwhile contribution.
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Thank you, Anabel. Now I wish I’d kept the photographs that I used in the presentation but they were too distressing to keep. I couldn’t see a reason for keeping them so destroyed them just a year ago in a Covid clearout. It is incredible the diseases to which elephants are prone, including snake bites and bursting with gas when they eat pesticide treated grasses and shrubs.
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How horrible! I can see why that would have been distressing.
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You are so right, they are super cute! Working at that clinic must have been an amazing experience!
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I wasn’t working ‘hands on’ but I was instrumental in helping them win an award from the British Guild of Travel Writers for the best World Wide Tourism Project to benefit the local area as well as tourism generally. I spent some days with the organizers and visited the various clinics, spoke to the vets involved, learned what they do, then made a presentation at the BGTW annual awards and they were awarded the prize. One of the organizers made it over to London for the presentation of the Award at the Savoy hotel and the publicity was of enormous help in their fund-raising.
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That’s a fantastic thing to have done!
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They are gorgeous and cute! 😀
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Thank you, Agata, you can’t beat baby elephants for the oooh factor!
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Human beings could learn much from how elephants care for their young. They do have very strong protective maternal instincts with an incredible long term memory. You’re right they are so cute.
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It was my first time to see such a young elephant. It could barely stand.
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How precious! Beautifully captured, Mari.
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I felt such an intruder on the pair, but I think the mother was used to humans and she had been helped a lot by local vets when she was rescued from an exploitative life.
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I love elephants and babies are the best baby animals for antics and fun 🙂
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They certainly are and they seem to relate so easily to humans – unless of course if the humans hurt them then that famous long memory comes into play!
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They are always ever so cute.
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Always! Most baby animals are cute but there’s something very vulnerable about a baby elephant.
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Thanks, Helen. For me it’s a lovely memory.
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A heart warming image, Mari!
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