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Callum Gowar

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Growing up in Cape Town, the opposite end of South Africa from its main wildlife areas, didn't slow Callum down when embarking on his ranger training at Londolozi at the start of 2015. He had slowly begun moving north-east through the country anyway, ...

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on The African and Asian Elephant: Defining features

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Thanks for the elephant info. Very informative. Hopefully I’ll never be confused again. Thanks for a fantastic blog.

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Very informative! I know some of the difference in ears but not the feet, size, and dome. thank you!

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Goodness gracious! How easy will it be from now on to instantly know the difference between African and Asian elephants! Sooo helpful. Thank you!!

This reminds me of a post not too long ago defining the differences between a cheetah and a leopard. That, too, was a post that made an enormous difference for me and I can now instantly discern which is a leopard and which is a cheetah.

Again, thank you for such a wondrous job educating all of us out here. Good stuff!! 🙂

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Great write up Callum, and very interesting and informative. I’d read about the ear size difference before but had no idea about all the other differences. Thanks for a great blog!

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African elephants have fuller. What is meant by fuller? any idea plzzz

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