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Heffalumps!!!!"Heffalumps" is the delightful child's name for elephants, first encountered in the book "Winnie-the-Pooh" by A A Milne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heffalump. Somehow it fits those wonderful creatures found in many parts of Africa (threatened in some areas), and on the Indian Sub-Continent. The African Elephant has the genus name Loxodonta and if I asked you what is the most characteristic feature of an elephant, many of you would reply that elephants are big - very big, in fact, the biggest land mammal in the World. Fully grown males are 3-4 metres in height, and can weigh up to 6 tonne; fully grown females are up to 3 metres tall and weigh up to 3 tonnes. We humans are tiny in comparison. Yet, look at the two images below. The first shows a fully grown female strolling past a baobab tree (about 3000 years old), and the second a small family with fully grown females and some youngsters eating and drinking at the edge of the swamp area in Tarangire National Pa

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Heffalumps!!!!"Heffalumps" is the delightful child's name for elephants, first encountered in the book "Winnie-the-Pooh" by A A Milne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heffalump. Somehow it fits those wonderful creatures found in many parts of Africa (threatened in some areas), and on the Indian Sub-Continent. The African Elephant has the genus name Loxodonta and if I asked you what is the most characteristic feature of an elephant, many of you would reply that elephants are big - very big, in fact, the biggest land mammal in the World. Fully grown males are 3-4 metres in height, and can weigh up to 6 tonne; fully grown females are up to 3 metres tall and weigh up to 3 tonnes. We humans are tiny in comparison. Yet, look at the two images below. The first shows a fully grown female strolling past a baobab tree (about 3000 years old), and the second a small family with fully grown females and some youngsters eating and drinking at the edge of the swamp area in Tarangire National Pa