1. Elephant Fight

    Posted in: Videos on Thursday, November 3rd, 2011

    Elephants play fight at sabi sabi

    Showing off for the girls, pushing and shoving, picking fights, refusing to listen to their mothers, I could be describing teenage boys, but in this case I’m talking teenage male elephants.  Sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference in their behavior, and the similarities were on display when I was at the Sabi Sabi Game Reserve in South Africa.  In the young male groups one minute they would be eating and the next they were butting heads and crossing tusks.

    By the way, it seems as if elephants are always eating.  You can’t maintain that figure without consuming some super sized portions.  This week on my radio show, National Geographic Weekend, I talk with Sabi Sabi Earth Lodge guide Brett du Bois about elephant behavior and we also discuss our encounters with rhinos and leopards.  This video shows some of the elephant action we witnessed.

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