The Elephants in the Room: Watch a Herd Walk through a Hotel
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> Why go on a safari when you can watch wildlife right from the comfort of
> your hotel?
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> Inviting big, exotic animals inside probably wasn't the plan when the Mfuwe
> Lodge was built in Zambia in 1998, but that’s what wound up happening. The
> lodge surrounds a mango tree that a local group of elephants likes to feed
> on and sits on the path they traditionally used to get to it.
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> When Mfuwe opened for business, the elephants made it clear they had no
> intention of changing their route. They walked in like they owned the
> place, shuffled through the lobby and out into the courtyard to feast on
> mangoes.
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> The spectacle, no doubt concerning to whoever was working the reception
> desk the first time it happened, has become one of the lodge’s main draws,
> and attracts crowds of tourists every year. According to the lodge, the
> group that makes the annual stroll through the lobby includes three
> generations of one elephant family, including their matriarch “Wonky Tusk”
> and the young “Lord Wellington,” who was born on the lodge grounds in 2009.
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> Wildlife cameraman Nathan Pilcher recently (2014) went to Mfuwe to see the
> elephants for himself, and you can watch his short movie by clicking the
> following link! --- December 14, 2015
> The Elephants that came to dinner|Mfuwe Lodge, Zambia
> http://www.youtube.com/embed/NdTII_unZSA
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