Longer Lashes Naturally

I wanted to get a shot like this for a long time, and I had been trying for just as long, but it's not easy. The main problem is that you have to find an elephant with lashes this long. And when you find one, then the sun needs to be very low. These long lashes are the perfect natural sunshades and keep any sunlight from directly hitting the eye, making the eyes either invisible or very dark. And if those criteria are met, then you have to be able to get fairly close in order to actually photograph the eye, and be fast enough to take the shot...