Tailor-made safaris and travel to Southern Africa
GAME-VIEWING DURING DRY WINTER MONTHS
During the dry winter, surface water is scarce, and animals dependent on water, especially the larger herbivores such as elephant and buffalo, are forced to return to the last remaining sources of permanent drinking water on a daily basis. This makes for some spectacular game-viewing and wildlife photography.
Elephants are particularly dependent on water, requiring on average over 30 gallons a day just for drinking (bulls in musth require more than four times this amount!). In addition to this metabolic requirement for water, they also use water as a cooling mechanism, spraying themselves with gallons and gallons more water. Researchers have found that, in some parts of the region, elephants consume as much as 80% of all surface water during the dry winter months, and it is not uncommon to see elephants aggressively chasing other animals away from watering holes during these difficult times.
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