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African Elephant - Loxodonta africanaChobe National Park offers excellent elephant viewing. Numerous breeding herds can be seen along the Chobe and Linyanti Rivers and around Nogatsaa and Tchinga campsites as the winter deepens. The water-hole at Savuti (also spelled Savute) attracts large numbers of bulls which one can usually approach more savely than the bredding herds. Moremi and Okavango also boast large numbers of elephant which can, however, prove more elusive than their counterpats in Chobe due to the denser vegetation. The African elephant is the largests living land animal and weighs up to 5,400 kg. It inhabits the savannah, brush, forest, river valleys, and semi-desert regions of Africa south of the sahara desert. |
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Besides its greater size, it differs
from the Asian elephant in having larger ears and tusks, a sloping forehead,
and two “fingers” at the tip of its trunk, compared to only
one in the Asian species.
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