Animals of the World

Every morning in Africa, a springbok wakes up. It knows that it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.

Every morning a lion wakes up, it knows that it must outrun the slowest springbok or it will starve to death.

It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a springbok, when the sun comes up, you’d better be running!

Many species, many photographs of each. Here is a small sampling of large but gentle animals—Gorillas and Elephants
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“The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.”

Diana Fossey

No one in the world needs an elephant tusk but an elephant