Red Elephants, Kenya Photograph by Brent Stirton, National Geographic This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features The “red elephants” of Kenya’s Tsavo East National Park owe their color to the red soil, which they roll in as a dirt bath. Across Africa, sustained poaching of bulls and large females makes orphans of the young and distorts the gene pool in favor of weaker, smaller animals. See more pictures from the October 2012 feature story “Blood Ivory.” Watch a video about the problem of ivory trafficking » HIGH RES

Red Elephants, Kenya

Photograph by Brent Stirton, National Geographic

This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features

The “red elephants” of Kenya’s Tsavo East National Park owe their color to the red soil, which they roll in as a dirt bath. Across Africa, sustained poaching of bulls and large females makes orphans of the young and distorts the gene pool in favor of weaker, smaller animals.

See more pictures from the October 2012 feature story “Blood Ivory.”

Watch a video about the problem of ivory trafficking »

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∞  10/16/12 at 09:37am via National Geographic
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    It baffles me how this is still happening. Are we living in the 80’s?
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