Elephant on the beach

U narednih nekoliko postova pokazaću vam neke od divnih momenta na Tajlandu, kao što je bio moj bliski susret sa slončetom na plaži. Obožavam životinje, a na ovom putovanju sam imala prilike da se družim sa prelepim vrstama. 

 In the next few posts I'll show you some of the great moments in Thailand, like this one that I had with a baby elephant  on the beach. I love animals, and on this trip I had the opportunity to hang out with the beautiful species.

Asian elephants don’t run. Running requires lifting all four feet at once, but elephants filmed in Thailand always kept at least two on the ground at all times.

Teško je izmeriti inteligenciju bilo kog živog bića, uključujući čoveka. U svakom slučaju postoje jaki razlozi da se veruje da su slonovi sposobni da obavljaju više mentalne funkcije od većine ostalih sisara. Brzina kojom slon uči trikove, i zadatke koje mu čovek zada je neverovatna. Mladi slonovi pamte više različitih puteva do hrane i vode. Vole da se igraju, što je primećeno i kod primata i ostalih životinja za koje se smatra da su visoko inteligentne. Kroz igru slonovi razvijaju socijalne sposobnosti koje su im potrebne da bi opstali u krdu.

Cool ears

Elephants' ears are a little like air conditioners. As elephants flap their wet ears on a hot day, the blood flowing through the many blood vessels there is cooled. This in turn cools their large bodies.

 

  

Elephants can get sunburned, so they take care to protect themselves. “Elephants will throw sand on their backs and on their head. They do that to keep them from getting sunburned and to keep bugs off,” Tony Barthel, curator of the Elephant House and the Cheetah Conservation Station at Smithsonian’s National Zoo, told Smithsonian.com. To protect their young, adult elephants will douse them in sand and stand over the little ones as they sleep.

 

Like human toddlers, great apes, magpies and dolphins, elephants have passed the mirror test—they recognize themselves in a mirror.

I was wearing:

bikini&pants: San Lorenzo

hat: from Berlin

sunnies: vintage

shirt: chicnova.com

bracelets: H&M

xoxo

Anastasija

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