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A Secret Look into the Elephant Homestead | A Night with Lundi, Mambo & Jabulani

We're excited to show you the elephant homestead from a whole new angle! For the first time, we get to see what Lundi, Mambo, and Jabulani get up to in the homestead at night. We are immensely grateful to ‪@fStopFoundation‬, who generously donated nine remote cameras to us. Using these cameras, we can observe the elephants in ways we haven't been able to before. We look forward to learning much more about the elephants and their behaviour! In this video, we see the section of the homestead that Lundi, Mambo, and Jabulani share. The camera is facing one side of the section; the water trough and the section covered by the roof (where the elephants' food is) are out of view. This section is quite long, and it's positioned closest to the carers' rooms. Mambo is 14 years old and Jabulani is turning 27 in March. Young bulls like Mambo learn skills and behaviours from older bulls like Jabulani. This includes sparring. By sparring playfully with older bulls, young bulls learn essential skills and grow stronger. As we can see in this video, Jabulani and Mambo certainly get lots of sparring practice. Eventually, the three elephants go to sleep on the sand mound. But just a few hours later, they wake up to eat. They go back to sleep, then wake up again a few hours later to eat. Elephants spend the vast majority of their days on eating – up to 18 hours per day! That means that they eat throughout the night as well. Unlike humans, who tend to sleep for one long stretch, elephants sleep for multiple short stretches. In between those periods of sleep, they spend their time eating. In the morning, Jabulani is the first to wake, followed by Lundi. Mambo takes his time to wake up, preferring to sleep as late as possible. We imagine that all the sparring of the previous night must have been quite tiring. We'll be sharing more peeks into the homestead soon!