re: #82 lawhawk

All the focus clues suggest that it’s a photo edited image. Very poorly done at that.

It’s been enhanced poorly, and probably compressed badly to make it smaller and easier to repost, but that doesn’t make it fake.

A reverse image lookup results in this original

The photographers website is here:

insta-stalker.com

Since the larger elephant is actually significantly behind the babies, it’s not in the same focal plane- if you look closely, it’s already starting to fall out of focus compared to the babies. A low enough f-stop combined with zoom compression, and the fact that the additional cropping results in a forced perspective, could explain the anomalies you are noticing. Given the number of elephant pictures (among other things) she posts, it seems a jump to go from zero to fake on the basis of a second-hand “enhancing” of the original.

(Note: I’m making an educated guess on the lens and aperture, since the exif data has been stripped from original file.)