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From the Editor Dear Readers, As I type, whilst sat on what feels like the face of the Sun (42 degrees), we’re going through a bit of a heatwave apparently. I’m all for a bit of warmth and sun on my face but usually, I like to be near water to cool down and/or aircon and a nice cocktail in hand – I currently have none of the above – very sad times! Maybe I should start having a nice spot of gin in my bottom drawer for such occasions, it’d go down a treat with the warm cordial I am enduring to ‘stay hydrated’! pffft, ‘stay hydrated’ Fat chance of that! I’d need to down 6 gallons every 20mins to get close! Anyway, thunderstorms are due so every cloud and all that, I guess! So, have you seen our front covers this month in homage to World Elephant Day? Laura has written about them in her article and personally speaking, I adore elephants. A few years back, we were lucky enough to have a close encounter with an elephant whilst travelling and whilst I was washed her feet & feed her a ball of hay a few of the other tourists got up on her back and were sprayed from her trunk. It was in a nature reserve, and they were fed and well looked after, but I struggled with it. I can’t help but feel that the allure of western money to make them perform for the tourists is just too much. Why can’t we just leave them be (protect and preserve where necessary) and not poach them, so that they can just be peaceful in their natural habitat? I appreciate that this is controversial for many , so it is only my opinion but personally speaking it has given me a different perspective when a holiday involves animals, but then again, isn’t that what travel is all about – broadening horizons & challenging opinions?!

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ELEPHANT FACTS In honour of World Elephant Day on August 12th, here are some facts you may find interesting. The elephants we see today (and there are THREE species, not just two – more on this in a mo) share a common ancestor with the Woolly Mammoths who roamed the Ice Age World between 300,000 years ago to around 10,000 years ago. This common ancestor was part of a group of herbivores named Proboscidea, whose origins date back sixty million years. Most proboscideans were relatively small compared to modern elephants and would have borne little resemblance to the animals we know today. Some six million years ago, proboscideans began to separate into different species. DNA research shows that the African elephants were the first to diverge, whilst Woolly Mammoths and Asian Elephants followed suit around 440,000 years later. Now back to the fact that there are THREE distinct species of elephant around today, and these are: •

The African savanna elephant

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The African forest elephant

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The Asian elephant

DNA shows the two African species diverged about 2.6 million years ago. The African savanna elephant is the largest living land animal; an adult can tip the scales at 16,500 lbs (7,500 kg) and stand 10–13 ft (3–4 m) tall at the shoulder.

Forest elephants are smaller than the savannadwelling species and have thinner, straighter tusks. The remaining 150,000 or so forest elephants are found mainly in the dense forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic and Cameroon An Asian elephant weighs about 12,000 lbs (5,500 kg) and stands about 10 ft (3 m) tall. Apart from the differences in sizes, there are several other ways to distinguish the three species visually: Ears African elephants have much larger ears than their Asian counterparts, and it’s possible to tell the difference between the savanna-dwelling species, whose ears closely resemble the outline of the continent of Africa, and the forest livers with more oval-shaped ears. Head shape Both species of African elephants have a rounded, dome-like skull (the forest elephants being smaller), whilst the Indian elephant has a very distinct twin domed head with a clearly defined indent running down the middle. Toenails! African forest elephants have five toenails on the front feet and four on the back, while African savanna elephants have four on the front and three on the back. Asian elephants have five toenails on the front and four on the back. Trunks African elephants have a kind of two-finger arrangement at the end of their trunks, giving them tremendous dexterity; Indian elephants, however, have only one “finger”. One final note, all three species of elephants are considered to be at risk. Some African populations are increasing, mainly in Southern Africa, whilst in other areas, they are being poached to near extinction level, and Asian elephant numbers have declined by 50% in the last three generations! Could you imagine a world without elephants? I know I couldn’t.

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In Praise of the Peak’s Starlings It is always a worry when a one-time commonplace bird suddenly drops in numbers and appears to be on a long-term downward slide. This was indeed how things seemed for the starling which was once one of our most familiar birds but for some time appeared to be joining a long list of formerly ‘common or garden’ birds but which was becoming fewer and fewer in number each year. Various theories were put forwards as to the cause of the decline, but it seemed that factors like, the drying up of wetland habitats in upland moors and bogs for example, were a problem. In summer, in places like the Peak District, post-breeding flocks of starlings gather with local birds boosted by immigrants from the continent until, by the autumn into mid-winter, they grow into the now famous ‘murmurations’. These are such as at Stony Middleton where over a million birds may flock together in the late afternoon to roost overnight. However, in the mid to late summer they will have moved onto upland pastures, moors, and bogs where they habitually gorge on the vast numbers of emerging craneflies (daddy-long-legs) whose leather-jacket larvae thrive in damp turf. Longterm drying of the moors has meant fewer craneflies and hence it seemed, less starlings. I wonder if rewetting the great peat-bogs is now helping the starling to recover.

a simple pale buff. These are highly gregarious birds with a good level of intelligence and complex behaviours. They are excellent mimics and often make calls and snippets of songs pinched from other species that they have been mixing with. Indeed, you can tell where your birds have come from by their calls. I have heard very passable renditions of for instance green woodpecker, curlew, golden plover, redshank, and lapwing. For the latter species, I assume the starlings had been feeding on a wetland or coastal area. These beautiful birds are deeply embedded in our culture. In Russia for example, the return of the starlings in spring is awaited much as we anticipate the swallow, swift, and house martin. As often the case with such distinct and interesting birds, local people have developed numerous common ‘folk’ names for the starling over the centuries. As documented by Mark Cocker and Richard Mabey in their seminal ‘Birds Britannica’, these names vary from Starnel in the English Midlands, to Shepster, Sheppy, Shebster, Shep, Stinker, Shitlegs (Northern England of course), Scootie, Stirling, Stirlin, and Stirleen. Anyway, whatever we choose to call them it is wonderful to have them back again.

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