Field Recording: Old Bull Elephant And His Young Apprentice Redecorate Our Campsite

Into the Okavango

August 17 2015, 10:06 PM. Okavango Delta. Small groups of bull elephants clear islands to make them more elephant-friendly, in hopes of attracting a mate. Typically an older bull teaches the young ones this strategy. The sound of an elephant approaching through vegetation was totally surprising and wonderfully terrifying. Never saw it, but it was maybe 20ft away. A great example of elephant flatulence at the end. Recorded by Brian House (http://brianhouse.net, http://soundcloud.com/brianhouse) for the Okavango Wilderness Project. These sounds are in the public domain and may be downloaded and used for any purpose, but consider linking to our expedition website: http://intotheokavango.org Equipment used: Sound Devices 702 digital recorder with Sennheiser 418 stereo shotgun microphone (M/S). Post-processing in Logic Audio (editing, normalization, EQ, limiter). Format: 96khz 24-bit WAV.