These young Burmese children, after tiring of being in formal dress for a village wedding, quickly retired to the bride's home to play Angry Birds | Photo by Keziah Wallis, March 2015

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'Taking the Babies to Graze'
Every day, after the men have eaten the first of their two meals of rice and lentils, or ‘dal bhat’, the elephants of the Khorsor stable are ridden into the Royal Chitwan National Park in Nepal for 5 hours of grazing. The baby elephants accompany their mothers by natural inclination and will not require their own drivers until they are separated from their mothers and subjected to training | Photo by Piers Locke

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