How plastic is harming Sri Lankan elephants.
Sri Lanka's elephants are unknowingly consuming plastic waste, potentially cutting their life spans in half. Lakshitha Karunarathna's striking image, Toxic Tip shines a light on this issue.
Lakshitha reveals that "the elephants have become addicted to the sweet and salty flavours of the food that's been dumped, but they're also ingesting plastic that's left with the food waste
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/wpy/gallery/2025-toxic-tip #photography #elephants
A Tale of Two Trunks by Rohan Neel Shah
In the Maasai Mara, two elephants intertwine their trunks in a gentle moment of play. The black-and-white frame accentuates the texture of their skin and their shared quiet connection.
Location
Maasai Mara national reserve, #Kenya
A wonderfully bizarre ‘elephant done by a medieval artist that had never seen one’ - 14th century, Lyon. Bibliothèque municipale, Ms 742, f. 79v
@MedMilMedicine #elephants #medieval #manuscripts
For #ManuscriptMonday: Asian #Elephants & Indian #Rhinoceroses!
Lovely miniatures in a c.1590-3 imperial illuminated manuscript of The Memoirs of the Mughal Emperor Babur (r.1526-30)
British Library OR 3714, f. 378r + 379r
"Originally written in Chaghatai Turkish and translated into Persian at his grandson Akbar’s request by Mīrzā ʻAbd al-Raḥīm Khān."
https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=or_3714_f378r
https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=or_3714_f379r
![digital scan of f.379r, illuminated manuscript miniature panting depicting a pair of Indian Rhinoceroses in a landscape [with Persian text]](https://media.historians.social/media_attachments/files/114/020/876/634/395/827/original/4b2f61d409fe0989.png)
![digital scan of f.378r, illuminated manuscript miniature panting depicting a herd of Asian Elephants in a landscape [with Persian text]](https://media.historians.social/media_attachments/files/114/020/876/514/467/970/original/ee9715eadb43ba01.png)
Baby Friends, Elephant and Donkey, 1904 - Tuck's Animal Life Postcard
