African Savanna Elephant

Follow the path up the African Walking Trail to Grasslands Viewpoint and enjoy stunning views of our African elephants as they explore their spacious habitat on the Safari Drive.

From here, you can observe these remarkable animals moving naturally across their expansive environment, which includes an outdoor pool, mud wallows, dust baths, feeding areas, and a state-of-the-art elephant house. Their habitat has been carefully designed to support natural behaviours, allowing them to roam, socialise, and explore throughout the day.

See our four majestic African elephants — Five, Coco, Suzy and Gitana — as they range across the Safari Drive. Our female, Five, has been at the Safari Park since 1998, while Coco, our bull elephant, arrived in August 2023. Suzy and Gitana joined us more recently from Pairi Daiza Zoo in Belgium in June 2024, and have been settling in well as part of the herd.

Cool Fun Fact: flapping their large ears helps elephants regulate body temperature by cooling the blood flowing through the skin, helping to prevent overheating in warm conditions.

African savanna elephants are the largest land mammals on Earth and can live up to 70 years. Despite their strength and size, their populations are under serious threat in the wild due to habitat loss, human conflict, and ivory poaching.

The path leading to the African Walking Trail has a steep incline with a compressed gravel surface. We do not recommend this route for wheelchair or mobility scooter users. Guests with pushchairs may also find this section difficult to navigate. Instead, you can use the tarmacked road past Marmoset Mischief to access the African Walking Trail. To do this, keep right, take the second exit road and proceed up a smaller incline. This is a shared route so please keep to the side and beware of vehicles.