Top 10 Elephant Photos That Inspire Love!
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As the season of love is among us, we would like to review our top 10 photos that scream love from all angles.
Marula Season is Here! Discover the Elephants’ Favourite Fruit
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Go marula hunting with Adine and Nandi It’s an extremely hot day in the bush and water is on everyone’s minds in this video below! The elephants enjoy a drink at the dam while Khanyisa submerges herself. Adine takes us for a drive through the bush and heads off marula hunting with her trusty German … Continued
The Happiest Muddy Little Elephants, Khanyisa & Timisa And Serious Dam Time
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These scenes were filmed by Carer Owen! How can you not smile while watching the elephants enjoying life so much? All they need is a little mud and water and their wilderness turns into a playground! Watch Khanyisa and Timisa enjoying the mud with the other elephants close by, and waterhole time as all the … Continued
15 Years of Young Elephant Bull, Zindoga
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In this video below, we look at how to identify Zindoga, who turns 15 this year, on 25 October! It can be tricky to identify this young elephant, as he looks a lot like younger bull Mambo from some angles. Watch this video to find out which of Zindoga’s features can help you to distinguish … Continued
A Letter from Adine on World Elephant Day
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I like walking in our reserve. I walk to see how the green thorn and marula trees are faring, which fruits have dropped, to smell the rain waiting to fall, and hear distant trumpets of wild herds. I like having my feet on the earth, pacing over dirt paths roamed by lions and leopards. I … Continued
Trails for Trunks | A HERD World Elephant Day Event
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Join us for a fun and healthy celebration of life and elephants over the weekend of World Elephant Day 12-14 August 2022, as we walk, run, cycle or do any form of exercise to raise funds and awareness for elephants for HERD’s Trails for Trunks Event! The event will run on the weekend from 12-14 … Continued
How to Identify the Jabulani Herd Elephants
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There is more than one way to identify the Jabulani herd elephants. You can look at the elephants near them – Setombe is never far from Sebakwe, the allomothers take turns to look after Khanyisa, Mambo is frequently near Sebakwe or Zindoga in order to spar with them, and Kumbura is often following after Khanyisa. … Continued
How Being an Albino Affects Orphan Elephant Calf, Khanyisa
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In this blog, we focus on Khanyisa’s eyesight as an albino elephant. One of the first things people notice about Khanyisa are her eyes. Unlike the other elephants in the herd, Khanyisa has extremely light eyes – from a distance her eyes may even look white. We frequently receive questions about Khanyisa’s eyes, as people … Continued
The Long-Term Rewilding of the Jabulani Herd and Elephant Orphans
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The Reintegration of the Jabulani Herd Our long-term goal in stepping in to help rescue and provide a safe and protected wilderness home to a herd that was in need has always been full reintegration into the wild. When HERD Founder, Adine’s mother Lente rescued and accepted the responsibility of keeping the original Jabulani herd … Continued
Dominant Bull Elephant, Sebakwe Goes on a Nighttime Bender
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As one of our followers said recently, you can have a routine but you never know what will happen in a day to throw that routine out! Nature, or rather the elephants, often have their own plans and in this case it was Sebakwe who was wooed by the lure of a wild bull to … Continued
