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Nature And Wildlife Tv | Elephants Look Like Ghosts Haunting The Sun-Drenched Savanna

Elephants look like ghosts haunting the sun-drenched savanna

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These elephants look like ghosts haunting the sun-drenched savanna with skin whitened by clay and calcite sand.

The unusual-looking animals were photographed at a waterhole in Namibia’s Etosha National Park after taking a mud bath to cool off from the blazing heat.

Some dry white calcite sand and white clay will be left on their skin as the moisture dries up.

Nature And Wildlife Tv | Elephants Look Like Ghosts Haunting The Sun-Drenched Savanna
Elephants play by a watering hole in Namibia’s Etosha National Park after coating themselves with water made muddy by the region’s white soil
Nature And Wildlife Tv | Elephants Look Like Ghosts Haunting The Sun-Drenched Savanna
‘Ghosts’: The elephants are said to look like specters after covering themselves with the water, which stains them white with a combination of white clay and calcite sand

Felix Reinders, 30, an industrial engineer from South Africa, captured the famous ‘white ghosts’ of Etosha National Park last September.

“The big Etosha elephants come from all different directions to the Nebrownii waterhole and then stay there all afternoon bathing until late,” he said.

‘It’s almost like their date at the bar. They stand facing each other or spray water at each other. ‘

The word Etosha means ‘wonderful white place,’ after the large salt-white expanse that forms a pan in the national park center.

Elephants congregate wherever they can find moisture, burrowing in and splashing in mud and water to cool off in the intense heat.

When the mud dries, they are left on white earth, earning them the nickname ‘great white ghosts’ of Etosha.

Nature And Wildlife Tv | Elephants Look Like Ghosts Haunting The Sun-Drenched Savanna
The ‘great white ghosts’ of Etosha are well known and a big draw for tourists, like South African industrial engineer Felix Reinders, who took these photographs in September last year
Nature And Wildlife Tv | Elephants Look Like Ghosts Haunting The Sun-Drenched Savanna
The word Etosha means ‘great white place’, after the vast expanse of white, salt-laced earth which forms a pan in the centre of the national park
Nature And Wildlife Tv | Elephants Look Like Ghosts Haunting The Sun-Drenched Savanna
Elephants gather in Etosha wherever they can find moisture, wallowing in and splashing themselves with mud and water in an effort to cool off beneath the beating hot sun

Mr. Reinders said: ‘Some of them will stand and sleep next to the waterhole.

“Then there was a local black rhino who also wanted to take a sip of water but the male elephants didn’t like this visitor to their bar.”

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