At dusk one evening, we took a boat ride on the Chobe river. Among several interesting sights, we saw some elephants eating and taking dust baths by the side of the river. Elephants are cool. They sure are destructive, though---on the trip, we saw some areas that were totally denuded by elephants, whose population is too high for the available parkland. I'm sure some culling will be necessary---either that, or elephants and other animals will start starving.