Present from my wife

[CarlW]

Cool picture-book, eh?

 

[Pedro]

Amazing tusks there. Wonder if you'd get them that size these days.

 

[CarlW]

Amazing tusks there. Wonder if you'd get them that size these days.

Incredible, eh? It's a modern photograph, taken in Tsavo in 2017. The big 100-lb-plus elephants still exist in places. They are canny and old: perhaps 50-60 years of age.

 

[Klenchblaize]

Cool picture-book, eh?

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I like that photograph and your wife's choice of book. I'd also like to see more of what I strongly suspect is a very likeable CarlW library.

K

 

[CarlW]

I like that photograph and your wife's choice of book. I'd also like to see more of what I strongly suspect is a very likeable CarlW library.

K

Don't judge me too harshly if you find the trash I've tried to hide in amongst Prince Leopald corner...

 

[Mike L]

I like your demijohns full of cases, mine are full of sloe gin!!!
Also reading man eaters of tsavo at the moment.

Mike

 

[CarlW]

I like your demijohns full of cases, mine are full of sloe gin!!!
Also reading man eaters of tsavo at the moment.

Mike

Here is a reading list for you, Mike, once you've finished with Patterson:

 

[Mike L]

I will make a list!, I have two of tegners to keep me busy as well.

Mike

 

[Highlandsjohn]

What a great present Carl,thanks for sharing the library / man cave. I seen a few pics recently of tuskers, this one of a tusked cow I saved,getting to the end of her life, she died in 2017. Amazing creatures,could it even be the same el. john

 

[willowbank]

What a great present Carl,thanks for sharing the library / man cave. I seen a few pics recently of tuskers, this one of a tusked cow I saved,getting to the end of her life, she died in 2017. Amazing creatures,could it even be the same el. john
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Would be very useful for a bit of ploughing....

Willowbank.

 

[Highlandsjohn]

Would be very useful for a bit of ploughing....

Willowbank.

Iirc I believe she did often walk with them resting on the ground toward the end, she was much photographed. john

 

[CarlW]

What a great present Carl,thanks for sharing the library / man cave. I seen a few pics recently of tuskers, this one of a tusked cow I saved,getting to the end of her life, she died in 2017. Amazing creatures,could it even be the same el. john
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Hi John,
That is a cow called F_MU1, the Queen of Tsavo. As you say, she died in 2017 at a great age: of starvation during the drought (as is the natural order of things), rather than to a poacher's bullet.
Kind regards,
Carl

 

[FISH BOY]

Impressive library fella.

With young children, I wish I had time to read half of those.

 

[A Guy Out West]

Don't judge me too harshly if you find the trash I've tried to hide in amongst Prince Leopald corner...

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Wheres the table with a rack of pipes and a bottle of Scotch?

 

[Highlandsjohn]

Hi John,
That is a cow called F_MU1, the Queen of Tsavo. As you say, she died in 2017 at a great age: of starvation during the drought (as is the natural order of things), rather than to a poacher's bullet.
Kind regards,
Carl

Thanks for that Carl.
No rest or retirement home for wild animals. Their fate awaits them around the next corner, in the shape of a Hyena, Wild Dog or big Cat. john