Spiked Lunch

If you are what you eat, elephants are basically one big walking pile of acacia leaves. They eat other plants too, of course—some populations of elephants have hundreds of different greens to choose from—but the elephants that I met in Kenya loved acacia plants, enormous spikes and all. In this video shot at the Sheldrick Ithumba Camp in Tsavo National Park, I share a little about acacia plants and the sharp weapons they have on their branches. Check it out!

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