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Help give Maggie the opportunity to live the rest of her life in the company of other elephants

Help the McNeil Bear Sanctuary off linmits to hunting

 

Observations of Maggie Addressing Her Injuries on June 21, 2007

Paul Joslin / Friends of Maggie / June 25, 2007


Sucking up dust

Sucking up dust

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Blowing dust on facial injuries

Blowing dust on facial injuries

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Deliberate wetting down of an area of dust to make mud

Deliberate wetting down of an area of dust to make mud

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Adding some more water

Adding some more water

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Applying mud to injury on right leg

Applying mud to injury on right leg

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Close up of injury site

Close up of injury site

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Applying more mud and dust

Applying more mud and dust

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Maggie observed about 30 minutes earlier just after she had created another mud site in another part of her exhibit.

Maggie observed about 30 minutes earlier just after she had created another mud site in another part of her exhibit. She had already applied some mud to the injury on her right leg and was gathering more mud.

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She swung her trunk back again towards her injury and let fly in one motion. I suspect that her close miss was accidental.

She swung her trunk back again towards her injury and let fly in one motion.  I suspect that her close miss was accidental.

 

 

 

 

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