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The majority of elephant pictures on this page were taken in Zambia's Lower Zambezi National Park, while others were taken in Botswana (Tuli Block) and the Kruger National Park in South Africa.

If you visit the Tuli area on safari, you're more than likely to see many small "maternity" herds of elephants, allowing you to get pictures of elephant mothers with their babies.

However, elephants are very protective of their young and don't like you getting too close. It's advisable to balance the urge to capture a memorable photo with respect for their space.

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Row 1:
1.Elephant family, Lower Zambezi NP, Zambia
2.Elephant eating branch, Lower Zambezi NP, Zambia
3.Elephant family in defensive formation, Tuli Block, Botswana

Row 2:
1.Tuskless elephant with ears flapping, Kruger Park, South Africa
2.Mother elephant with youngster feeding, Tuli Block, Botswana
3.Lone elephant with no tusks, Kruger Park, South Africa

Row 3:
1.Elephant group crossing river, Lower Zambezi NP, Zambia
2.Elephants wading, Chobe River, Botswana
3.Elephant bull walking, Kruger National Park, South Africa

Row 4:
1.Elephant on banks of river, Lower Zambezi NP, Zambia
2.Elephant wading, Lower Zambezi National Park, Zambia
3.Elephant family on riverbanks, Lower Zambezi NP, Zambia

Row 5:
1.Elephant mothers with calves, Tuli Block, Botswana
2.Elephant female herd standing together, Tuli Block, Botswana
3.Elephant mother and calf, Tuli Block, Botswana

Row 6:
1.Elephant and reflection, Limpopo River, Tuli Block, Botswana
2.Elephant close-up, Zambezi River banks, Zambia
3.Elephant on banks of Zambezi River, Zambia

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   Breeding Herd
Although relaxed elephants will usually simply ignore a safari vehicle, it's not wise to push your luck with a breeding herd.

This means a good telephoto lens is essential for capturing family groups of mothers with babies. A medium zoom lens in the 70-200mm range is usually adequate for this.

Pictures of Charging Elephants
National Geographic photographer Nick Nichols, in his article "Taking Pictures of Elephants", says that photographing elephants "is probably the most fun thing you can do as a wildlife photographer".

He goes on to write: "Some of my best pictures are of charging elephants. Elephants are hunted heavily where I work, so they're afraid of humans, and if you get the right elephant, it'll charge.

"But I think it's almost always a bluff charge .... an elephant just wants us to go away, so she trumpets and charges a little bit, which makes for a dramatic moment. Of course, there's going to be the charge that's real, and I'm not sure I can read that. I usually run away, which you're not supposed to do."

South African wildlife photographer Darryl Balfour experienced "a charge that's real". He was knocked unconscious and left for dead by an old bull elephant in South Africa's Kruger National Park.

Balfour says he was lucky to survive "because the elephant's tusks were too big for him to kneel down and crush me".

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