)Posted 18th September 2026)
Courtesy of African Elephant News
| Ryan Truscott, Mongabay Via The Good Men Project (U.S.) September 16, 2026 |
| African savanna elephants in southern Tanzania have an unusual habit: They climb mountains. Up to 1,000 of the pachyderms spend part of their time in the Udzungwa Mountains, clambering up and down steep slopes that are clad in lush, closed-canopy rainforest. “They can negotiate really quite surprisingly steep gradients that you wouldn’t expect, even to the point [of] occasionally, in the rainy season, sliding down on their bums when a particular slope is too steep,” said Trevor Jones, director of strategy and development at the Southern Tanzania Elephant Program (STEP). |
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