Elephant Destroy Tree Just For The Juicy Roots

Elephants are responsible for toppling large Knobthorn trees (Acacia nigrescens), snapping Marula (Sclerocarya birrea) and Mopane (Colophospermum mopane) trees as well as bark-stripping Baobabs (Adansonia digitata) in many parts of the African savannas. This level of damage appears excessive because only a few leaves or pieces of bark or roots are subsequently eaten, and because persistent elephant damage can lead to the death over large areas of trees that include the preferred fodder species of elephants. For example, Marula, Baobab, Knobthorn and certain succulents (such as Aloe species), all highly palatable species for elephants, have variously been decimated in some parts of the Kruger National Park, South Africa.
Filmed close to Satara Rest-camp in Kruger National Park.

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