Photo of the week: elephant footprints

October 17, 2026

There is a real disease called elephant's footprint (caused by Rhizoctonia cerealis). That disease is almost exactly the size of a real elephant's footprint, and it is common on Zoysia japonica in autumn.

Then there are real elephant footprints.

A few elephants with muddy feet left the footprints above as they walked across the fairway in southern India.…