Photographer captures touching final images of Kenya's "Elephant Queen"

A British wildlife photographer published touching photos of a "tusker" elephant over the age of 60 before it died of natural causes -- a rarity since many become casualties of poaching. Will Burrard-Lucas, who took stunning images of a black Kenyan leopard, told CBS News on Wednesday that he felt "privileged" to capture the last known shots of Kenya's "Elephant Queen."
Burrard-Lucas wrote in blog post about teaming up with the Kenyan Wildlife Service and Tsavo Trust, a conservancy organization focused on protecting elephants of Tsavo ...

With researchers with Tsavo Trust, they set out to find the elephant known by the code "F_MU1." After several days, while driving in an old Land Rover through a remote area about the "size of Switzerland," Burrard-Lucas finally came across the sexagenarian creature.

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