28th Feb 2012 Pink Elephant

Seeing Pink Elephants

If a friend tells you he is "seeing pink elephants", then this is serious. What it means is, he is suffering delirium trembles. The condition and the accompanying hallucinations are caused by alcohol poisoning. Up till recently, most people think 'pink elephant' meant something not needed nor wanted, like a gift you don't know what to do with. 

 

Baby Pink Elephant

Cameraman Mike Holding had definitely not been drinking when he captured these photos of a pink elephant in northern Botswana, Africa. Experts believe it is probably an albino, which is an extremely rare phenomenon in African elephants. While albinism is thought to be fairly common in Asian elephants, it is much less common in the larger African species. 

 

Here we see the baby pink elephant attempting to shelter under its mother because surviving is very difficult in the harsh African bush as the glaring sun may cause blindness and skin problems.

Rare baby pink elephant in the photo is mighty cute isn't he? incidentally, his brother looks like Dumbo!

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