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Shanti

Smithsonian National Zoo's 45 year old elephant Shanti 2/14/2020. If you look at her feet you can see where keepers are treating abscesses caused by her arthritis.

Shanti
E Maximus, 18 Feb 2020
    • AmbikaFan
      Oh, she looks to be lifting her left leg slightly... She must need relief, but she really doesn't have a good leg to stand on. When I was there in October, she was in this exact position and made direct eye contact with me for about 3". She knows me from years of close-up visits before the renovation with my daughter in the dead of winter when we'd have them and Marie all to ourselves. She's very non-confrontational, and I've never seen that kind of penetrating eye contact from her. I'm positive she was trying to tell me something, in a way that seemed almost urgent for her, but I have no idea what it was. Thank you for sharing this. Bozie looks really good here, without those love handles I saw in October and January. Maybe she gets bloat as a result of that life-threatening gastro illness she had in 2013?
    • AmbikaFan
      Shanthi's flapping her ears, so unless that's some very special morsel curled in her trunk, she knows and is happy to see you!
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