Usually the big elephant bulls hang out in ones and two’s, so it was great to find all these big guys together.
Having satisfied their thirst they were in no hurry to move on and as if in slow motion they sidled across the river to the mud wallow. It seems as if the whole world stands still for these guys. They rule! Are they not the “King of Beasts”?
I’m now at the WildTalk Wildlife Film Festival in Durban and was on a panel today discussing…………………WILDCAST!
Kim: Have you ever seen a big bull go back to visit his mother?
I’m sure elephants always remember their families if and when they come across them. And also the bulls tend to keep coming together and moving apart again and so always keeping contact with the herds. Just some of the much older bulls might travel far afield but even they would remember their families if they came across them again.
The Sheldrick Wildlife Trust reports that orphans, both male and female, who have grown up there return to visit years after going back to the wild.
http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/index.asp