Elephants tread lightly in old minefields of Angola; Research is showing that the displaced pachyderms of Africa's wartorn areas are beginning to return to their former grazing grounds, writes Leon Marshall.(Dispatches)

From: The Sunday Independent (South Africa) | Date: June 10, 2007 | Copyright information

Elephants moving into war-ravaged southern Angola from Botswana and the Caprivi appear to have developed the ability to step around the land mines that litter the region.

Before that, many had their trunks and legs blown off, condemning them to an agonising death. It might be that they have since started to associate the smell of mines with danger and so avoid them.

The animals are returning in ever-growing numbers to the vast south-east Angolan landscape in w...

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