ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 6月10日 21時38分

Photo by Pete Muller @pete_k_muller | I first catch sight of the clearing from the depths of the forest. I'm sweating heavily. I'm nervous, too, because unhabituated forest elephants move in the trees just beyond the path. The forest is so dense that a group of them could be standing only a few feet away and you might not realize it. Being with large animals on their terms is humbling. Suddenly, it seems, the trees recede and we arrive to a splendor unlike anything I've seen before or since. At dawn and dusk, hundreds of elephants gather to drink the nutrient-rich subterranean waters percolating up to the clearing. In this part of the Central African Republic, such a clearing is known as a "bai," a word in Aka language that describes naturally open places where animals gather to eat. Standing on the edge, I momentarily forget the war that rages in the villages beyond and feel as though I'm looking at another era of the Earth's history, one in which human beings were peripheral or not yet in existence. I consider our contributions and the cost at which they came. For a moment, deep in the central African forest, the only sounds are those emerging from the creatures below.

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