(Posted 20th July 2026)
Courtesy of African Elephant News
| Fred Kockott, Ground Up (South Africa), July 17, 2026 |
| A collared desert elephant bull in Namibia moved north into communal conservancies and then Etosha National Park. “He moved through commercial farms, broke through many, many, many fences … In two weeks, he moved about 600 kilometres in a very targeted way,” says conservation scientist Morgan Hauptfleisch. Hauptfleisch believes the journey was shaped by inherited patterns of movement that long predate modern borders. “Perhaps there’s a memory, there’s an old memory of a certain plant that fruits at a time, where there’s been a particular type of rainfall,” says Hauptfleisch. |
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