If you love Elephants…

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… as much as we do, then the Kruger National Park with its large population of African Elephants really is a must visit destination! This is just a few of the hundreds of elephant photos we took during our visit to the Park in June 2023, with a short video as bonus (and don’t miss the cute little baby trying to drink from the river alongside his mom around the middle of the video!).

Elephant family
Elephant family
Elephant cow in profile
Elephant bulls gathering at a self-dug waterhole in the dry Timbavati River
Elephant hogging Malopenyana Waterhole for himself (photo by Joubert)
Big old Elephant bull
Elephant family (photo by Joubert)
Smiling baby elephant (photo by Joubert)
Bull elephant in a hurry
Elephants (and a buffalo to the side) making their way to the waterhole at Babalala
Elephant warning (photo by Joubert)
Elephant Cow and baby
The Elephant’s Tail
Elephant youngster (photo by Joubert)
Elephants drinking from the Pioneer Dam at Mopani Rest Camp
A huge bull Elephant on his way to the Mooiplaas Waterhole

 

32 thoughts on “If you love Elephants…”

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    1. DeWetsWild's avatarDeWetsWild Post author

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  9. wetanddustyroads's avatarwetanddustyroads

    Sjoe, dis lekker om soveel olifant foto’s te sien. Ek dink altyd aan my skool gediggie “stertjie van voor en stertjie van agter” wanneer ek ‘n olifant sien 😉. En ag my jitte … die ou kleintjie het amper die hele gesiggie onder water, dis te kostelik!

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    1. DeWetsWild's avatarDeWetsWild Post author

      It is hard not to assign familiar human emotions to elephants when you get the chance to watch them interact with each other and their world. I guess that explains why they’re my favourite animals!

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  11. lois's avatarlois

    I was laughing along with Janet at that little baby elephant trying to baptize itself. So darn cute!
    What struck me, though, was the zebra tails at the beginning of the video. It was almost as if they were swinging in time to the music. These videos are wonderful, Dries.

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    1. DeWetsWild's avatarDeWetsWild Post author

      Did you notice how the zebras stand head-to-butt next to each other to swat the flies and midgets from each other’s faces, Lois? The same fly or midge that is responsible for the dark spot moving around my opening shots in the video! Grrr.

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      1. lois's avatarlois

        Dries–I was so fascinated by the tails, I didn’t even notice how they were standing–or the dark spot on your lens!

  13. sustainabilitea's avatarsustainabilitea

    Oh, my, I laughed out loud a number of times at the poor little elephant trying to drink or maybe to baptize itself. Much too cute. When you really look at an elephant as if you’ve never seen one before, they really are fantastic looking animals, fantastic in the sense of fantasy. But we’re so used to seeing them that I think we don’t think anything about it.

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    1. DeWetsWild's avatarDeWetsWild Post author

      They still have us in awe every time we see them, Janet. From those tiny babies to the biggest bulls; they’re all captivating to watch!

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