Elephant Browsing at Night, Ruaha National Park, Tanzania (2011-09-01-c2-1016d) by Kin Corning

published on 2011-09-11T17:30:26Z

Elephant Browsing at Night, Ruaha National Park, Tanzania (2011-09-01-c2-1016d) Most small safari camps in Africa are unfenced, and it is not uncommon to awake to the sound of Elephant browsing near the tent at night. In this recording, made after midnight in Ruaha National Park, our visitor is tearing branches from a small Candelabra tree just a few yards from the tent. Amid the crashing of vegetation, you can hear the grinding of the Elephant chewing, and some other unexpected sounds I have annotated on the timeline. The musical note in the background, repeated at regular short intervals, is African Scops-Owl.