Addo Elephant National Park is part of the South Africa National Park Service and is located near Port Elizabeth. The elephants used to be tightly packed in this park but it has recently been expanded so that these large but quietly have a wider area in which to roam. Due to this, it is harder to see them but evidence will be all around. An elephant produces 150 kilos of dung every day, so the precious flightless dung beetles have quite a job to do.
You will see many signs in this park asking you to take care not to run over dung beetles that are vital to the fragile ecology. Just after dusk the silver backed jackals often start howling, an eerie serenade in the silence.