We Went Inside an Elephant Cave I Underground Salt-mining

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Elephants subsist on foraged vegetation, but even the thick forests of the Eastern Rift Mountains can’t always provide them with all the minerals they need to stay healthy. Females in particular often supplement their diets by eating soil or rock. ↠Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/c/TerraMaterO...

But Mount Elgon, on the border between Uganda and Kenya, is the scene for an even more unique phenomenon. Here, savannah elephants have learned to mine a network of hidden caves for salt and mineral deposits. We follow them deep inside the extinct volcano to learn more about this incredible behavior…

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Producer: Eva Schmidt
Assistant Producer: Katrin Blaß
Graphics: Jörg Eisenprobst
Voice-Over: Julian Nightingall
AudioMix: Stefan Fiedler

Original Production:
"Wild Uganda", a co-production of Terra Mater Factual Studios and National Geographic and Doclights/NDR Naturfilm produced by Cosmos Factory Filmproduktion.

Production:
Terra Mater Factual Studios GmbH
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Sources:
Speleogenesis of the Mount Elgon elephant caves, Kenya, Geological Society of America, Special Paper 404, 2006
Formation of cave salts and utilization by elephants in the Mount Elgon region,
Kenya, Article in Geological Society London Special Publications, January 1996