African Elephant in Kruger National Park

Loxodonta africana

Chance of an encounter
Very likely

Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Kruger 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 January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December, with the widest coverage in August and October. A quiet month can mean the animal was absent, or that nobody was looking.

The evidence here

Grid cells
242
Records
598
Cell size
10 km
Years covered
1985 to 2026

A grid cell is a square of the map, not a sighting: 242 squares of 10 km carry records for African Elephant in and around Kruger National Park, and the 598 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.