synchrodogs by tania.shcheglova on Flickr.
Elephants in Africa, as captured by photodocumentarians Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson. Alex Shoumatoff reports that—with new wealth in China driving ivory prices to $700 per pound and beyond—tens of thousands of elephants are slaughtered each year.
“He constructed a shell to hide his aloneness, and it hardened on his back. I know of no sadder story.”
