Now, if you read the historical notes of early naturalists they would have told you that aloes would have only occurred on these very on these very steep, rocky slopes and little kopjies. As you can see on Kwandwe there are these stands of aloes. So what happened is when the elephants disappeared from this area, a hundred odd years ago, these aloes just capitalized on the vacancy. And just grew all over the place. So these stands that you see over here is not a natural situation. Now that the elephants are back we can see what these elephants are doing to these stands. And, well, it's a lovely story now with the return of these mega herbivores they show us these aloes never occurred in this area. And when Dr Anthony Hall Martin came here he said we can have about 150 to 200 elephants on Kwandwe. Currently we've got 26 elephants. And you'll go through areas and it looks like aloe graveyards where these elephants have moved in and just taken off the heads of these aloes.
And all they're interested in is just the top section of the aloe. They don't eat the leaves, they don't eat the rest of the stem it's just that top part of the stem..
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