Colossal Shadows: Super Tuskers of East Africa (Captions)
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- There are only 24 super tusk elephants left on Earth.
With tusks weighing a combined 200 lbs or more, these magnificent creatures are kings of the elephant world. Their near-disappearance was due to the hands of humans, yet they managed to survive by hiding deep within the African bush. Their existence today is a testament to the intelligence and resilience of mother nature.
When award-winning photographer and filmmaker Drew Doggett learned about the precarious position of these elephants within the delicate balance of wildlife in East Africa, he decided to search for and document the largest tuskers left on Earth to share their story with the world.
This short film dives into Drew’s expedition, the inspiration for the journey to Kenya, and the making of the accompanying limited edition print series titled Colossal Shadows: Super Tuskers of East Africa. This film also features Tim and Craig who were considered to be the largest two super tusk elephants still roaming the Earth. Due to natural causes, Tim passed away in 2019 a few months after Drew’s visit.
Please visit drewdoggett.com/series/colossal-shadows for more information on Drew's accompanying limited edition print series.
Seeing those tusks is like stepping back in time, and being in the presence of a GIANT MAMMOTH
100% One of the most underrated videos on UA-cam.
They are beautiful and majestic! Thank you!
Wonderful and yes it is very important we try to save these animals
Beautiful creatures, magnificent tuskers
I love elephants ❤
And I suggest hunting poachers (as a form of lynch) just like they hunt these innocent animals for the ivory
I would have no compunction when killing a poacher
An eye for an eye
These are the Elephants of the Tsavo in Kenya
A mighty force of nature
The majestic super Tusker - The king of the African Bush indeed! May they long live!
Literally their survival is a miracle..
I don't now how they survived. All of the big ice age animals of N.America went extinct. And somehow these creatures lived on.
@@bongobongo985 They simply refused to die.
@@_V.Va_ Someday they will. Once in North Africa, no more. Tuskers are 5% since 50 years ago. No Elephant lives above sub Sahara Africa now.
Thank you so much Drew Doggett. I am speechless but tears in my eyes. I love the elephants so much. Your photografic shall be help safe the elephants.
Hopefully poachers dont see this vid
They are protected around the clock by KWS (Kenya Wildlife Service).
@@Drewdoggettphotography I certainly hope that the KWS has done something for them as they did for the rhinos; gps chips in the tusks? These astounding animals are the last of a dying breed. I'm so sad that my grandchildren or great grandchildren might only see these wonderful creatures in photos or on film.
@@Drewdoggettphotography History says its not enough, man is an insane predator.
This is a wonderful video!!!🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘
Really impressive... I love big elephants and big rhinos
I love it ....great work.... Big thanks.
Please add more content from Kenya and Tanzania. Just spectacular!
A great collaboration. Photographs can help to make the difference. Some hands destroy, others like yours help a lot.
You’re amazing. I’m sharing your videos and photography with everyone I know. So beautiful.
Thank you my friend, thank you very much! you have done a great job ! we are sitting in our homes on a comfortable chair seeing your magnificent video of mighty tuskers !! May God bless you with health vigor and vitality throughout your life !!
100 % amazing magnificent
Amazing video Drew.
His photographs and this video also attract attention to these elephants.
The U.S. and other countries should fund long term security for the "Super Tuskers". They should be constantly watched and protected until the number of them increase.
Tell the Asian market to stop the demand of ivory. These super tuskers some were born in the 50s and 60s . If we are to get another generation of super tuskers we will have to wait up to 2080
@@nt6001 Unfortunately you cannot hide these from the Somali poachers, they care nothing for international law, and those laws just make ivory ore expensive.
Son maravillosos.
Thanks for doing this!
Well done dude 👏🏼👏🏼✊🏼👍🏼🌹keep up the good work.n I do adore your efforts lots. We us humans must adhere to nature n better conserve all species n their habitats 🌹
You are a young man with a very mature voice. What beautiful animals I hope they can remain safe from the prying eyes of poachers.
I thank you by all my heart
Long may these magnificent animals live!
Sadly their days are numbered.
Magnificent
this derserve more views
What a magnificent animals. What a god-given miracle! What a wonder to observe. Deserves 24/7 protection against criminals, that kill and slaughter for money.
Thank you, this is just astonishing footage. Keep the great work coming! Blessings from Mexico!
Absolutely stunning!!!!
Amazing video by the way!!
These are times when I really admire the imaginativeness of those people who thought up the Hindu god Lord Ganesha. There really seems to be something unfathomable in the majesty of these beasts.
Thank you.
Save the elephants!!!
So absolutely beautiful
Absolutely heartbreaking to hear about these magnificent animals being killed by cowardly poachers.
This video is so damn legit😍🙌 Well done and thank you❤
Your coverage of these super tuskers is goid in raising awareness but in it also reveals their precense to the poachers. Best is if their existence is not given the wide spread coverage, which they are subjected to.
I pray they are on reserves that protect them from poachers.🙏🏻 They must be.
Big !!!!
Majestic, Magnificent Animals We need more Impicable people like You ! THANK YOU RESPECT.
amazing
Good👍 video🎥📹📼 nice. 👌🤝👏💐💐
I just had to subscribe❤️❤️🥺🥺🥺🥺
I see you have been inspired by Mr Yarrow Me too :)
God is great. His creations cannot be questioned.
Why then does your god allow one of his creations to destroy others, not for survival but for evil greed?
Yeah but nah, what was god thinking when the giraffe was created? That’s the height of awkward- pun intended. What they need to do just to drink water is ridiculous!
Don’t get me started about mosquitoes
@@adnamallerom4137 Hahahahaha 🤣😁😊😆😂😅👍🏼
Well then your god has to account for the sheer unforgiving brutality of nature where allot of animals live under stress with not enough to eat and will die horrible deaths. You can’t just think there is a god because the world is beautiful, you also have to account for the the life cycles of parasites who use animals as hosts which kills the animal in order for the parasites to reproduce, and you have to also account for not only all the other species of elephant that have gone extinct but the fact that 99% of all species that have ever existed have gone extinct….some plan by god eh?
You’re spot on…God created an amazingly beautiful and interesting world for us…and elephants are one of my daughters and myself very favorite creations!
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Lions: (insert evil morty theme)
Superb video.
great work very touching
Beautiful
good shit , i dont say that about everybody.. for real
Truly magical. But wouldn’t it be safer for the elephants not to mention where in Africa?
How could one kill those magistic animals. They're the real Jewels of our world
These elephants were breed created by kush that became the Negus Royal Axumite Elephant sent From Ethiopia to the Ethiopian colony in Yemen and Used by Abraha and his invasions.
Leave these tusks alone....
We don't NEED THEM.....
I wish humans were better animals 🙏😭
Mashallah awesome creatures
Where do they come up with the number of 24 tuskers?
After making this video the super tuskers where quickly poached
I recognised Craigh !
Tusker is a magnificent creature of Allah the Almighty
His numbers are not right nut they are magnificent animals, wonderful pictures thanks
That's craig and late Tim of amboseli national park in kenya
I love It! Beautiful! 🐘
Они пришли из прошлого.
when a rich kid is bored
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Shall i use this visuals for my channel to create an awareness in my local language?😊
Son Unas Hermosas Bestias
Park rangers should cut their tusks to discourage poachers from killing them the same way they protect rhinos by cutting their horns.
The TWO factors threatening African wildlife today is:
A) increased poaching, and,
B) the continuous encroachment upon, and destruction of, their remaining pockets of native habitat from the increasing demands for resources by an ever growing and unchecked global human over-population.
Btw, this guy is WRONG when he states there are only 14 tuskers left!! What he really means is: "at present we know of 14 tuskers in this park". There are plenty of tuskers in Africa, far more than those currently identified. His deliberate misuse is just a scare tactic to make the ignorant worried!! In one park, Rangers counted 25K elephant in one 24hr period.
Please please please. Can we not kill them. It seems to be that these are the only one left. And i happen to see in one of the documentaries that the males are evolvingtheir DNA to keep their tusks short as a result of poaching.
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Dangerous too...
Do your proceeds benefit these elephants?
Yes!
@@Drewdoggettphotography excelent
I aplaud you so much.....
Say big no to ivory please.
IN THE MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS I PRAY PLEASE PROTECT TO THE FULLEST OF THESE MAGNIFICENT GODS CREATION,,THESE WOUNDERFUL TUSKERS
слонов с такими бивнями уже не существует, их уничтожили браконьеры
That is the greed of the humans not all humans are created equal some of us want things that belong to other people and they were willing to kill to get it my opinion The Killers should be killed
Astonishing footage of these magnificent animals.... long may they survive !!
Superb video.
Animal maravilhoso!!!! Magnífico!!!
Would it not be a good idea to cut down these tusks to a much smaller size (similar to how we de-horn rhinos)? That way we can keep the tusker gene pool alive by ensuring they are not killed...
People are destroying everything.
Wonderful animals, and images. And the 7 downvoters proclaim to the world their niserable and mean-spirited natures.
Am from Kenya and am surprised that there are only 20 of tuskers left because some people want to make bungles and traditional medicine.