We’ve been having some excellent few days on safari as of late, with rhino, elephant, cheetah sightings, and of course dozens of others. So I am finding it hard to pick a particular animal we’ve seen over the last couple of days, it’s just too many. One thing that I always find irresistible is elephant babies, somehow. Not that they are all that small, but they look so tiny and cute next to their big parents, they just look adorable.
So, yesterday, we picked up tracks on the elephants and followed them all the way into the Muruti wilderness area– they were a bit shy and the bull was playing a hide and seek game with us (but chose a smallish tree 😉 ). We stayed with them for about 10 minutes before they disappeared – only to be tracked again and found on Moditlo – near the Moriah cutline, they sure travel a lot and fast!! And there he was, the little one, just a few weeks old. I had reported on him a little while ago, so it was great to see him (or her?) do so well. The herd on our reserve is growing nicely, and is now standing at over 20 elephants, which is a great success. As one can see on the photo, there are herd members of all ages amongst them, so the kind of social behavior our guests can observe here is optimal. Elephants are very smart, and they have a very complex social fabric and code that runs their families and herds, so they are a clear favourite for researchers … and safari fans.
