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Quick Addo Fact: Not Just the Big Five – the Big Seven. Addo (as us locals call it!) is home to the Big Seven. This includes the Big Five of elephant, lion, buffalo, leopard, rhino plus great white sharks and southern right whales.

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Sleepily – Addo Image

Sleepily | Addo National Park – Find Addo Accommodation.

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Last light of the setting sun.
An average lion sleeps approximately 20 hours a day. So, it’s not difficult to photograph him while yawning. ;)

Im letzten Licht der untergehenden Sonne.
Ein durchschnittlicher Löwe schläft annähernd 20 Stunden pro Tag. Es ist also nicht schwierig, ihn beim Gähnen zu fotografieren. ;)

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Quick Addo Fact: Trees in Addo are protected by bees – At some trees in the park, you can spot small white bee boxes. Elephants avoid these protected trees unless they have an absolute dire need and they simply have to eat it. Generally, elephants are scared of bees, because their ears are very sensitive. It’s a very thin layer of skin and that’s what the bees go for. They also sting them around the eyes, on the ears and the tip of the trunk. Addo has some special trees and ellies, funny enough, need those trees as well for shade. That’s the one big stress factor they have in Addo. It’s vital that elephants keep their body temperature at certain level, so when it gets hot they either need mud wallows to go to, or they need shade.

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African Elephants (Loxodonta africana) female … – Hapoor

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Hapoor, Addo Elephant NP, Eastern Cape, SOUTH AFRICA

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Quick Addo Fact: Spekboom is a superhero. Spekboom is prolific in the main game area of Addo and helps to sustain the Addo Elephant Park’s hearty population of over 600 elephants. The succulent spekboom regenerates quickly so the landscape doesn’t look devastated as it does in Kruger due to destructive elephant feeding. The plant is so good at converting carbon dioxide that ten hectares of spekboom would equal taking 25 cars off the road for a year. There are also places where the precious thicket opens up revealing wide plains of game with pinpricks of zebra in the distance and bigger blobs of eland. 79% of the park is covered in subtropical thicket and it is especially concentrated in the main game area. It may look uniform, but the subtropical thicket contains 112 different vegetation types and is comprised of 1 558 plant species – 322 of these species (20%) are endemic and found nowhere else.

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#MyAddo – Elephants at Hapoor waterhole …

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Addo Elephant NP, Eastern Cape, SOUTH AFRICA

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Quick Addo Fact: The penguins in Addo are in trouble – Despite having elephant in the name, Addo Elephant National Park extends right down to the ocean and currently protects some very important islands in Algoa Bay, namely St Croix and Bird Island. African Penguins are more threatened than rhino are at this stage. Because they’re not a key species or a high profile one that people really know about, or care about penguins are on the sidelines. Their numbers have dwindled alarmingly and every ten years or so, their numbers halve and if it goes on at that rate, in the next twenty or thirty years there won’t be penguins around.’ Addo is responsible for the protection of about 50 percent of the total African Penguin population.

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Image – African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) young getting out of the mud with help from its mother …

African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) young getting out of the mud with help from its mother … | Hapoor – Find Addo Accommodation.

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Hapoor Water Hole, Addo Elephant NP, Eastern Cape, SOUTH AFRICA

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Quick Addo Fact: Two major environmental issues facing the AENP: extinction and overpopulation, which are interrelated. Since the AENP’s original mission was to reintroduce certain mega-herbivores, like the African elephant and black rhinoceros, primary ecological efforts were made to preserve mammalian species. However, by overlooking the other contributors to this environmental chain, certain plant species have been subjected to overgrazing and trampling, mostly by the elephants of the park. This overgrazing and trampling not only destroys much of the plant life, but also forces it to adapt its physiology to stimuli that are not inherent to its evolutionary progress. Some biologists argue that it is not herbivorization alone that is threatening the flora, but a number of other ecological factors including zoochory and nutrient cycling. Up to 77 species of South African endemic plant species have been listed as “vulnerable to elephant browsing.”

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African Elephants (Loxodonta africana) playing in the water …

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Hapoor, Addo Elephant NP, Eastern Cape, SOUTH AFRICA

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Quick Addo Fact: Unique Vegetation and Longest Dunes in Southern Hemisphere. The park is also unique in that it protects an immense array of vegetation, which stretches from the semi-arid Karoo to rugged mountains, through river valleys and all the way down to a wild coastline with the longest dunes in the southern hemisphere.

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#MyAddo – Auf der Jagd

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Sekretär Vogel im Addo Elephant National Park, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

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Quick Addo Fact: South African Conservation Success. Addo is the third largest national park in South Africa and one of our country’s top conservation success stories. From its start in 1931 with only 11 elephants, the park is now home to over 600 of these mammals plus a growing and varied collection of wildlife – from endangered rhino to rare flightless dung beetles.

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South Africa – Addo Elephant National Park – kudu

South Africa – Addo Elephant National Park – kudu | Addo National Park – Find Addo Accommodation.

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Quick Addo Fact: Marine protected areas – The Addo Elephant National Park Marine Protected Area and Bird Island Marine Protected Area are associated with the park.

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African Elephants (Loxodonta africana) coming for a mud bath …

African Elephants (Loxodonta africana) coming for a mud bath … | Hapoor – Find Addo Accommodation.

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Hapoor, Addo Elephant NP, Eastern Cape, SOUTH AFRICA

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