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Armchair Travel Courtesy of Elephant Photographers

Tue, 4/8/2008 - 12:16 PM — carolpatterson
by Carol Patterson, Principle, Kalahari Mangement, Eco-Tourism/Communication Consulting

Elephants can paint pictures, but did you also know they are great photographers? In Central India, film maker John Downer used elephants to film a BBC documentary on tigers. He had noticed elephants carried wood very gently and wondered if they could do the same with lightweight cameras invented by Geoff Bell. 

Using elephants as filmmakers with dangerous animals was beneficial; elephants do not see tigers as a threat and tigers are not bothered by elephants. The result was stunning photographs of tiger cubs and other animals caught in the elephant’s lens. For a look at the forest through an elephant’s eye visit:  
 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/03/25/eatiger125.xml
 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=543994&in_page_id=1770&ito=newsnow

Carol



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