How can an elephant survive in a desert area?

They live in the Kunene Region, encompassing 115,154 km2 of mostly sandy desert, rocky mountains and arid gravel plains in Namibia's northwest. Desert elephants in the Ugab River, Damaraland, Namibia. read more

Namibia's desert elephants are a source of great interest, and this page provides information and photos of the desert elephants from the Southern Kunene Region of Namibia, Africa. Although not a separate species, and not much different from other savannah elephants Loxodonta africana, Namibia's desert-dwelling elephants are special nonetheless. read more

an elephant can survive in the dessert only if there are a water source and food for the elephants. Elephants, or more specifically desert dwelling. read more

The desert elephants of Namibia’s Kunene Region are a distinctive population adapted to life in an extremely arid environment. They are one of only two populations of “desert” elephants in the world (the other is in Mali, North Africa) and have a number of notable physical and behavioral differences. read more