African Elephant in Tsavo East National Park

Loxodonta africana

Chance of an encounter
Likely

Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Tsavo East National Park, aggregated onto a 10 km grid. A cell is matched by its centre, which can sit up to 16 km outside the boundary, so this covers the surrounding country too.

Occurrence records measure where people looked and found something, which is not the same as where the animal is. This is a relative likelihood, not a probability.

When it has been recorded here

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Records exist for February and August, with the widest coverage in February. A quiet month can mean the animal was absent, or that nobody was looking.

The evidence here

Grid cells
64
Records
66
Cell size
10 km
Years covered
1981 to 2026

A grid cell is a square of the map, not a sighting: 64 squares of 10 km carry records for African Elephant in and around Tsavo East National Park, and the 66 records behind them were collected by other people and published openly. Nothing here counts animals, and a place with more records is not always a place with more animals.

About the African Elephant

The desert elephants of the Kunene are not a separate species, and that is the remarkable part. They are ordinary African elephants that have learned to live where less rain falls in a year than on London in a single April.

The full field guide entry, and everywhere else it is recorded

Before you go

Never block a movement corridor between water and cover.