The elephants munch on a donation of delicious butternuts in their homestead скачать в хорошем качестве

The elephants munch on a donation of delicious butternuts in their homestead

It’s amazing how small butternuts can look when beside the foot of an elephant or being lifted by a trunk into an elephant mouth! The herd were treated to a new delivery of butternuts when they returned to the homestead recently after being out in the bush and they all wasted no time in getting stuck in! Thank you to Soleil Sitrus packhouse (known as Soleil Pakkers) for donating six bins of butternut this week! You can see here how the separate quadrants work with: Bubi, Somopane and Zindoga together; Klaserie, Setombe and Sebakwe; Fishan, Tokwe, Limpopo, Kumbura, Pisa and Timisa; and Mambo, Lundi and Jabulani together… Listen for the sound of quietly munching elephants as they easily squash the butternut between their molars at the back of their mouths. Elephants have a molar in each side of their top and bottom jaw and go through six sets throughout their lifetime. As one sets wears down it is replaced by a new set. When the elephant has no more sets to go through, it will struggle to eat. This is the leading cause of death in old elephants and nature’s way of closing the curtain. But this herd, with the eldest only 36 years of age, have many decades ahead of them — as elephants can live to be between 60 and 70 years old. Sebakwe is the eldest, estimated to have been born in 1985, along with female Setombe, while Somopane is estimated to have been born in 1987, Fishan and Lundi in 1989, Tokwe in 1988, and young Bubi in 1993.