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Alice and Irene react to a didgeridoo performance...

Another guest post from ![email protected]. These two are Asian Elephants at the Albuquerque, New Mexico zoo. Things start rather indifferently, before a switch gets flipped around the 0:45 minute mark.

IIRC from a separate video, musician Allan McKenzie later donated his instrument to the zoo in honor of the performance and pachyderm reaction. Assuming anyone's able to play it, of course. My personal experience with a didgeridoo is that it requires extraordinary breath control to play continuously... indeed, I understand that one must inhale through one's nose as one exhales (and plays) through one's mouth(!)

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An African bush elephant in Chobe National Park, Botswana

Here's a guest post from ![email protected], encouraged by @[email protected].

I've had to speculate on this shot (as seen in the title), as information was limited. There are also versions of this pic in 'setting sun' colors, so this may indeed be color-shifted a bit. In any case, I find the new color scheme quite lovely!

Btw, the African bush elephant is the largest land animal in the world, with adults weighing in at ~7 short tons.

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