Elephants have big eyes.
And long eyelashes to keep the dust and sand and flies out.
They have swishy tails with hair at the ends to brush away the flies.
And big feet with big toenails.
Sometimes the boys give the girls backrubs. At least that’s what the guide told the young children next to us. This boy is much too young to be giving the girls backrubs, but he tries every day anyway.
The elephants like to scratch against trees.
It appears to be very satisfying.
The younger ones lie down to rest, but most of the elephants in the retirement home don’t because they won’t be able to get back up again.
The elephants spray themselves with dust to use as sunscreen.
It is hard to get everything covered.
This is the only picture of both of us with an elephant.
