Along the great savanna of Tanzania, Africa is a vast, but narrow stretch of oasis called the Serengeti. In the 1930's and 1940's, following its disappearance for almost 50 years, the mighty Serengeti elephant began to migrate again into this great oasis. Many believe that the elephant left to escape greedy poachers who sought only to plunder this gentle mammal but for its ivory tusks. Even after migrating back into the Serengeti, the elephant was again hunted to near extinction in the mid 1970's and 1980's. Today, the elephant flourishes on the Serengeti thanks to the wisdom of the Tanzanian government which had established the Serengeti National Park and warrants against any who sought to plunder this and other protected species. The Serengeti elephant is the largest land mammal on earth, weighing between 3,000 and 5,000 kilograms. This work was produced using Maya, DAZ Studio and Bryce. It is not a photograph, there are no photographs embedded within the image nor were any photographs used in creating it. It is also NOT a screen shot nor was it derived from any other sources such as video games or studio animations. It is an original work created exclusively in a virtual space on a personal computer (like forming a clay sculpture or building a studio set in one's backyard or garage). Each such work takes 30 to 50 hours to complete.