Elephants enjoy mudbath May 14 2008
As the seasons change in Botswana’s Moremi Game Reserve, large numbers of elephants begin to move to new sources of water and food.
The Earth-Touch crew came across a herd of about 60 animals of all ages in a magnificent, mature forest of leadwood and mopane trees, having a mudbath in a drying-up pan.The mud cools them down and helps to control skin parasites.
The water was no longer of good drinking quality and the elephants were only pausing there on their way to a more plentiful and cleaner source.
You can see a bull lying right down in the mud in a relaxed way, in the clip Elephants roll in forest mudbath.
There’s more wallowing, showing elephant family dynamics, in the clip Elephant families cross floodplain.
Another Earth-Touch clip, Elephant bulls follow new growth, filmed in December, explains how the seasonal movement of animals is central to the Okavango Delta ecosystem.
Image © Earth-Touch 2008
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