Elephants

 Two  of our safari jeeps found a herd of elephants today.  The females, babies, and adolescents of either sex live together in a large group.  Fully developed bull elephants keep to themselves.  The bulls are significantly larger and have much longer tusks.  Elephants eat almost constantly as it literally takes tons of leaves and roots to feed them.  They use their tusks to strip a tree branch of tasty leaves and small branches, pulling everything into their deceptively small mouths.  Around elephants is the constant rustling sound of leaves as they are stripped from the tree along with everything including roots and bark.  In fact we saw areas where elephants had literally knocked smallish trees onto their sides and then feasted on the roots and branches.  They also strip tasty bark from the trunks of trees.  It's easy to follow the path of elephant groups across the park because the destruction is so evident.  

Elephants are really exciting to see.  Lilly in particular is an elephant lover, and she actually burst into tears after we had an especially wonderful sighting.