Check Out The Elephants In Botswana.

[sanmac]

https://www.earthcam.com/world/botswana/chobe/?cam=campkuzuma

[Ken4155]

Chief suspects appear to be poison or some sort of virus, ladybirder.

[sanmac]

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/07/botswana-reports-mysterious-deaths-hundreds-elephants-200702080423349.html

[jno]

ladybirder, I don't think they eat crops, more they strip trees. If you ever see elephant dung, it's not changed much from what it was before they ate it. They have very primitive stomachs that don't extract much benefit out of nutrition, so they have to eat a lot. They sometimes travel 50 miles a day looking for food, and they're not too bothered by what they walk through. So safari camps often have fences to keep them out, and lock up marula fruit - elephants love them but if they're rotten the elephants get drunk, and you don't want a drunk elephant roaming your camp.

[ladybirder]

That's dreadful sanmac, in your link, so many dead and some still alive and suffering. This started off as a lovely happy thread:-(
Thanks for the info jno.

[puzzled54]

Check out the elephants now, there’s loads there

[sanmac]

There's one right now taking a late afternoon quaff and even obeying social distancing:)

[daisypotter]

Beautiful!

[Prudie]

Sanmac just wanted to thank you, I've had this open for days now, it's fascinating, apart from the elephants I'm mesmerised by the flies or moths or whatever they are that get caught in the light of the camera before it gets switched off when it's dark and swirl across the screen. I just wish the resolution was better. I saw a whole bunch of animals (lions/cats maybe?) all run up to the far side of the pond the other day and couldn't see what they were.

[sanmac]

The first few times I saw those squiggly lines at night, I thought they were some kind of fire-flies. Then after seeing an insect crossing the camera lens during the day, I realized that they were insects attracted by the light near the camera...The images sort of look like moving x-rays!

[ladybirder]

Prudie I can't take my eyes off it either. It is beautiful.
jno, a thought. I'm sure I've heard or read that they use their tusks for digging up roots to eat. No?

[sanmac]

OK, the nightly show of insects flitting across the camera lens and showing up sort of like x-rays has started.

[Prudie]

Yes I'm watching, I have also often seen a continuous moving light at the back right of the screen moving left which disappears about a third of the way across - I've wondered if there's a road/track and it's vehicle lights.

[sanmac]

I think you're right, Prudie. That's the first time I've noticed it...It must be a road, or at least some kind of track.

[Bazile]

Ok - do I click on the link - a screen comes up with a 'play ' arrow - I click the arrow and nothing happens

Is there something wrong with my phone , or something ?

[sanmac]

Bazile, I've never seen an arrow when I click on the link. Now and again the site goes to an ad, so maybe on your device you have to click on the arrow to watch the ad prior to watching the webcam site. I wouldn't bother sorting it out now if I were you since they will be soon shutting the camera down for the night.

[puzzled54]

Look now, there’s loads of them

[Canary42]

Fascinating.

Mud mud glorious mud, nothing quite like it for cooling the blood.

[LadyCG]

They're amazing. I counted 15.

[sanmac]

Yes it's three o' clock on a Saturday'
And the regular crowd shuffles in:) You would think that the temperature would be higher than 16.

[puzzled54]

I just find them fascinating, and so calming to watch