Is that an elephant’s trunk prop Coldplay’s featuring in the music video for their Paradise song of the new album? They recorded it in the South African Karoo while on tour there this month. Elephants in the Karoo. Yeah. (Let’s hope there’s no choirs or poor children in the video.)
There aren’t elephant there now I wouldn’t be certain that there never were. This site suggests that there were elephants in the Karoo about 150 years ago, and that some were reintroduced about six years ago onto a private game reserve, but the original link is dead: http://www.elephant-news.com/index.php?id=521. A discussion on the San Parks forum said there are some in the karoo (flora/veg) area of the Addo Elephant Park.
Elephants live in harsher areas. There are elephants in the Kalahari Desert, the Makgadikgadi salt pans and in the Kaokoland and Damaraland regions of north-west Namibia.
So why couldn’t there be elephant in the Karoo, except that the farmers would never stand for it?
Love that South Africa is used by so many artists as a hub for all of their creative outpourings… where else in the world would you find such contrast and variety?! Thank you for sharing!