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Hi everyone
This is my first post on the forum.
Just back from 5 glorious days in Kruger (Shingwedzi via Pafuri & Olifants). Had good sightings of 2 of Krugers new big "tuskers". "Magagadzi" near Shingwedzi & "Nhlanguleni" near Letaba. Both bulls had to lift their heads in order to walk & keep their tusks off the ground, looked quite uncomfortable actually. To be in their presence was absolutely magnificent...

You're lucky seeing 2 of them!
Did you make (good) pictures of them? Because if you did we are interested in seeing them, and you can enter them in this competition!

OOOPS
Second elephant is called "Nhlaganini".
Unfortunately no pics, to my BIG disappointment
Our sighting of Magagadzi was on our way back from a morning walk. No camera as i wanted to have as little as possible to carry in case we got chased by something!
We have some video footage of Nhlanganini though& i will see if any of it can be sent in for the competition.Thanx!

Hello and welcome Liesel

You certainly have been lucky! Are they magnificent beasts or what?
And since you corrected the name of the second ellie... The name of the first one is spelled Mashagadzi.
There are pics of these two and some other Big Tuskers in this thread.

Thanks Jose
Nhlanganini's mate must have been closer than 2 metres from my jeep when he walked passed us. He was as large but his tusks were a lot smaller. Watching his body language we guessed that he was calm and relaxed, feeding peacefully. He almost seemed polite as he changed course slightly in order not to approach us head on, respecting our presence.
I was sure that he could hear my heart pounding as he was feeding on the mopani bush next to us. "Gentle giants" got a whole new meaning to me. Pitty about the car that sped passed, scaring the poor unsuspecting ellie. They didn't even see him! He obviously got a fright and when we caught up with him again he was clearly irritated and we kept our distance in order not to annoy him further.
It made me realise what effect sometimes inconsiderate people may have on all of the parks creatures, big & small.

Hi Everybody

Just returned from Satara with a successfull big 5, including black and white rhino.
On 24/04/2006, about halfway on the S100, we came upon this large, lone elephant walking away from us. He was already to far away to get a good picture so we just sat watching him through the binos. At last he turns sideways and I noticed that the rght tooth are missing while the left tooth was on the wrong side. I did however notice that the left tooth and the trunk are about the same size. At first I thought it to be tree trunk untill it moves with ellie into the bushes and vanished.
I could not find any ellie to fit the description and would like to find out if anyone knows this bloke.
Enjoy the parks so that the parks can enjoy us.
Bigmouth

Bigmouth - saw this guy on the very same S100 just over a year ago. Look familiar?

Maschagadzi near Shingwedzi.

Acekam

Thanks for the pics. I saw his backside for most of the time but I would say that this is they guy. He looks much beter from the front.

We also saw this elephant on the S100 about 2km west of Sonop waterhole on 2 February 2006 at 15:30. I've previously emailed photos for ID to Dr Whyte without response to date (2 months). I've also mailed the photos to the tuskers project last Friday to find out if anyone there maybe knows this ellie.

He blocked the road and did not seem to mind our presence. Bit of a naughty guy though. After he step of the road to the right we decided to pass way to the left. The moment we started to drive forward he got back into the road He then walked of to the left to eat some grass that side and as soon as we though of passing on the right he got back into the road

Elsa


Here it is. Date 24 April 2006

http://www.pbase.com/arnomeintjes/elephant_charge

No that is close