Word: pilanesberg
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...twist on the traditional African safari, why not hop a ride on an animal rather than merely watching them? Near Pilanesberg, two hours north of Johannesburg, you can take an elephant-back safari through the lightly wooded Letsatsing game reserve, home to rhino, giraffe and zebra. Guests are collected from the game-trackers' desk in the sprawling Sun City hotel and casino complex and taken to a nearby elephant wallow. An introductory lecture about the big beasts, a one-hour ride and transfers between the pickup point and the beginning of the elephant ride cost $133 per person...
...trouble first surfaced about three years ago. Rangers in Pilanesberg National Park, in northwestern South Africa, began to notice that white rhinos were being killed at the rate of about one a month. Then the same phenomenon started happening at Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Park, in the southeastern section of the country. Poachers looking for precious horns are the usual suspects when rhinos turn up dead. But not this time. These animals were left intact, horns and all. Their wounds, moreover, had been caused not by gunshots but by long, sharp objects with some mass to them...
...Elephants often become aggressive during musth, but in the wild, older bulls usually keep the young ones in line. Not only are the orphan bulls going into musth without chaperones, but their musths seem to start earlier and last longer. The condition usually begins at age 30, but at Pilanesberg some 20-year-old elephants are going into a musth that lasts not the usual few days but as long as three months...
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