I wonder if Benny Hill knew about Parus major ?
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Pre-iNat: “A fly! Hand me that swatter!”
Post-iNat: “A fly! Hand me that camera!”
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Yeah, elephants and penguins came into contact at least in the recent past, although I don’t think they do anymore.
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I have seen the elephant - Addo National Elephant Park
And there are penguins nearby - altho we didn’t get to see them.
That would be just North of Gqeberha on your maps.
But if it is an Asian elephant? No penguins. So, no joke.
PS we have penguins in Cape Town, but the elephants were hunted down.
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Over here in India, our grebes go ‘blub blub’. They try to be submarines.
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So I’m not the only one to use that method of photography! Good to know, because everyone on this street thinks I’m crazy.
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Ha! That’s funny… but kills the joke… 
No doubt that’s what spoken to a lot of naturalists at a lot of parties.
OTOH, the revelation of the actual facts of nature can be a rich vein of humour, as demonstrated in many of the examples here.
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But the joke is stillborn in Africa.
Judging by the ears that is an African elephant
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A post was merged into an existing topic: Nature-inspired memes
what about a spider on acid?
Head is higher than the middle of the back, large ears, this elephant is African as you are Diana.
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Then African elephant and our penguin - are both mystified why someone thought that WAS a joke?
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Best to click through to get the context of this bee species
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