Swamp with a miraculous story from elephant footprints

The article again praised the noble values ​​from the natural world, which brought the story of the elephant through the swamp to be one of the interesting and unique stories that are of interest to many international biologists.

Accordingly, in the swamp of Kibale National Park, Uganda , many biologists unexpectedly found many elephants crossing the swamp area leaving behind huge, strange and strange swamps and footprints. behind those footprints is an interesting story.

A lot of elephants passed by, leaving many footprints in the swamp, interconnected, expecting the total amount of water accumulated in the elephant footprints to be about 200 liters of water on the swamp surface.

And later, few people thought that these elephant footprints became a living pond of a variety of invertebrates, parasites, many kinds of water, water spiders, tadpoles, aquatic .

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Ideal aquatic ponds created from elephant footprints on the Kibale National Park swamp.(Image source: Christer Fredriksson).

'I am surprised because the small pond of water is made from the elephant footprints on the swamp, these ponds are raising a world of diverse microbiological difficulties' . - Wolfram Remmers of Koblenz University in Germany shared.

'This story again shows that large animals such as elephants in the swamp area have an important influence on aquatic life on the swamp surface. Ask if one day suddenly the giant elephants no longer cross the swamp, leaving no footprints, where to find such wonderful magical ponds. '

This finding has just been published in the Journal of Ecology, DOI: 10,1111 / aje.12358.

Huynh Dung ( According to Newscientist)