Treasure Hunt
All the answers to this quiz can be found somewhere on the Letaba Elephant Hall pages of our website. See if you can find them!
Questions
- How heavy was the biggest elephant in the world?
- Which was the only one of the Magnificent Seven to be killed by poachers?
- How long are elephant cows normally pregnant for?
- What is Kruger’s only female tusker called?
- How often do scientists count Kruger’s elephant populations?
- How fast can an elephant run?
- What does ‘Ndlovu’ mean in Tsonga?
- Which is the only one of the Magnificent Seven whose tusks are not on display in Letaba Elephant Hall?
- In which National Park did the scientist, Iain Douglas-Hamilton, do his famous research on elephants?
- True or false: Tusks are elongated canine teeth?
- Which of the Magnificent Seven shares its name with a rest camp in Kruger National Park?
- Which tusker is known for trampling a photographer?
- What does ‘Mabarule’ mean?
- Whose tusks are the longest on record in Southern Africa?
- In what year did Mandleve die?
- Which tusker shares its name with the former ranger, Ben Pretorius?
- How many sets of molars does an elephant have throughout its lifetime?
- True or false: Most of the Magnificent Seven were normally seen in the north of Kruger National Park?
- Whose tusks are the heaviest on display in Letaba Elephant Hall?
- Is Letaba Elephant Hall open on Sundays?
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Answers
- 12 tonnes or 12,000 kg
- Dzombo
- 22 months
- Mamerle
- Every year
- Up to 40 km/h
- Elephant
- João
- Manyara in Tanzania
- False, they are elongated incisor teeth
- Shingwedzi
- Tshokwane
- Big feet
- Shawu
- 1993
- Masbambela
- Six
- True
- Phelwane
- Yes