It’s “Giving Tuesday.” Following Black Friday and Cyber Monday, we return to the spirit of the season, giving thanks, celebrating that which nourishes our souls and opening our hearts and wallets for […]
The Soul of Giving
Crooked Tusks
Tusks are teeth. Elephants and their ancestors developed these elongated incisors for a variety of reasons, from digging dirt for salt and water and pealing bark for food to establishing themselves as […]
Of Chainsaws, Royalty and Celebrity
Elephants have been making local headlines in France recently. Over the Easter weekend, a man broke into the Museum of Natural History in Paris and removed the tusk of an elephant skeleton […]
Tuskless in Tanzania
This brown-eyed beauty was born without tusks — a shortcoming perhaps, but not a deformity. I photographed her in Tanzania’s Lake Manyara National Park in 2008. She was with her two children, […]
