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In the wild,
female elephants never live alone |
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 Here is how the left side of her face looked on June 18th |
 … and here is how it looked on June 2nd |
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 June 25th |
 July 1st |
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 July 8th |
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 Here is how the right side of her face looked on June 18th |
 …and this is what it looked like on June 2nd |
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 June 25th |
 July 1st |
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 July 8th |
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The areas of new injury were at the most distally extreme points on the sides of her head, and were probably caused by Maggie rubbing the sides of her head against something abrasive like a concrete wall. All of her new injuries looked to be at sites where she had been previously injured in May. Perhaps they were irritating her.
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Note how tightly her ears are folded against her head. The weather on June 18th was slightly cool (60 degrees?). Never once during the hour or so that I observed her did I see her flap her ears. Perhaps she was feeling cold? At one point she went to the door of her indoor enclosure and stood there briefly. |
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 Facial injuries August 6 |
 Right front leg August 6 |
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