Two African Elephants, Loxodonta africana, splashing out of the Chobe River, northern Botswana, southern Africa (with a hippo mum and baby swimming in the background!)
Chobe National Park is one of the very best places in Africa to see Elephants – indeed it claims to have the densest concentration of African Elephant population in the world, with a current elephant numbers of c50,000. In the dry season – which is very dry in Chobe – there are large concentrations of elephants, in various group sizes, around the river, drinking and/or bathing to keep cool.
In Chobe NP, you can watch Elephants from land, on a typical safari game drive (from which the original photo of this image was taken), or you can watch them from the river, which is a particular feature of this reserve. Also in the dry season, Elephants swim over the deepest part of the river to reach Sedudu island, which normally has green reeds for them to feed on, even when the mainland reserve is very, very dry. Happily, the Chobe River is a permanent water source.
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