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The Chobe National park which is the second largest National Park in Botswana overs approximately 11 700 square kilometers and is best known for its impressive elephant population: 120 000 elephants to date, it is actually the highest elephant concentration of Africa. Moreover, most of them are probably part of the largest continuous surviving elephant population on Earth.
Elephants dwelling here are Kalahari elephants, the largest in size of all known elephant populations. Yet they are characterized by rather brittle ivory and short tusks, perhaps due to calcium deficiency in the soils.
At dry season, these elephants sojourn in Chobe River and the Linyanti River areas. At rain season, they make a 200-km migration to the southeast stretch of the park. Their distribution zone however outreaches the park and spreads to northwestern Zimbabwe.
In addition to the spectacular elephant population, it also has some of the greatest concentrations of game found on the African continent making it the ideal destination to get laid back, relax and enjoy great game viewing! |