Animal stories from Etosha continued. . .

Imagine our surprise and delight as we stopped at this small watering hole and found
over 30 elephants there.  We stayed and watched them for about an hour and observed
some interesting things.

First of all, when the elephants are at the watering hole, no one else will come.  They
appear to dominate.  We wondered who would be the king if the lions were to show up.

This is a jackal, I think.  He may be contemplating an attempt at the bird but there is no
way he could conquer that.

"Oh well, I'll just look for a target somewhere else."

"What?  You want to take our picture again!!"

The blue color of these birds is so brilliant and beautiful.  Anyway, back to the elephant
stories and the waterhole in Etosha.

$3:   Meet Baby Elephant "Elle"

I think Baby Elle is fairly new to this world and is very inquisitive as all babies are.  She really
wanted to experience the water but Mom and the others had a different idea.

She tried to approach the water from several different angles.  But every time that she got the
least bit close, the elephants would tighten up and not let her through.

They wouldn't even let her get her feet wet!

#4:  Junior, the Elephant Bully.

This young bull elephant did something that Junior did not approve of and we heard a
tremendous elephant roar or trumpet and then we saw "Junior" take after the other fellow.
He butted him continually and then chased him away from the group.

When they were quite a distance from the watering hole, Junior stood there and glared at him
for a time.  Then left and returned to the group.

After awhile, let's name him Buddy, cautiously and slowly returned to the water hole and found
a spot on a remote rock away from the group.  Then he stood there for the remainder of the
time all alone and motionless.  It was really quite sad.