Elephants Cross Border Between Zim and Zambia in Interesting Way

Researchers that have been tracking elephants in Zimbabwe’s Zambezi National Park and Zambia’s Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park have stumbled across something rather interesting that has not been seen before.

According to Lionalert.org, researchers have discovered that elephants in both these National Parks may very well be travelling between the two parks (and essentially the two countries) by swimming back and forth between the two parks in the dry season.

The hypothesis that the researchers proposed, was that the a few of the elephants out of a larger group that the researchers had been tracking were spotted in both parks more than once a month.

This led them to believe that the elephants swim back and forth between the two venues.

This is instead of migrating to Zambia completely and staying there for the entirety of the season as they have done previously,

Lionalert.org explains on their website:

“…This small proportion adds further weight to our hypothesis that the elephants swim back and forth between Zimbabwe’s Zambezi National Park and Zambia’s Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park throughout the dry season, rather than migrating over to Zambia at some point and staying for the whole season…One group of 18 male elephants is regularly seen swimming its way from an island in the Zambezi to Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park.”