Africa’s Big Buffalo. Thorny Bush Game Reserve, Mpumalanga
an oncoming stampede. Elephants bustled past us, trumpeting furiously. We followed them into
the bush. Suddenly, we began to see large tree tops swaying in the distance. “They’re excited!”
said our guide, “This is very unusual behavior.” One by one, I watched tree tops disappear as the
mad elephants uprooted them and trampled them down. Later, our guide stopped the vehicle to
examine elephant excrement, in which she found traces of marula fruit. It is believed that the
marula fruit