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Young Elephant Sniffing

Bandipur, Karnataka, 20 July 2005

Though elephants are almost blind, they are really good at smell. They can smell ripe fruits which are many kilometers away. If you see an elephant and if you see the elephant raising its trunk towards you, then it means it's smelling you, after which it will either choose to charge at your or run for cover


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