Big Tusker Mabarule Dies
HOEDSPRUIT (Kruger Times)- Mabarule, one of the few distinctive huge elephant bulls of the Kruger National Park, has died. Section Ranger Johann Oelofse and his team found the carcass on November 11. They estimate he had been dead for four to six days.
The elephant was one of the ‘new’ heavy tuskers in the Park and had often been photographed at the Malopenyana windmills near the turn-off to the Makhadzi picnic spot north of Letaba.
He frequented the Mooiplaas section and was named after Mr Oelofse, bearing his Tsonga name Mabarule meaning ‘Big Foot’.
It appears Mabarule died of natural causes.
by Lynette Strauss, Kruger Times
The elephant was one of the ‘new’ heavy tuskers in the Park and had often been photographed at the Malopenyana windmills near the turn-off to the Makhadzi picnic spot north of Letaba.
He frequented the Mooiplaas section and was named after Mr Oelofse, bearing his Tsonga name Mabarule meaning ‘Big Foot’.
It appears Mabarule died of natural causes.
by Lynette Strauss, Kruger Times
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Saturday, December 11, 2004
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