PHOTO OF THE DAY May 9, 2005  

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Where Gabon, Africa
When 2003
Photographer Michael Nichols

Forest elephants have straighter tusks and rounder ears than their larger, savanna-dwelling cousins. Both species—forest elephants and African elephants—are classified as endangered on the World Conservation Union's Red List.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Gabon's Loango National Park," August 2004, National Geographic magazine)


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