Delagoa Thorn Thickets Ecozone - Kruger National Park

Delagoa Thorn Thickets Ecozone - Kruger National Park:

Description: There is often abundant game in this ecozone as the grasses are very sweet. The dense thickets of Delagoa thorn trees are often interspersed with bare overgrazed patches and muddy depressions after rain.

Typical Vegetation:

Trees	Herbaceous Plants	Grasses
Delagoa thorn Many-stemmed false-thorn Apple-leaf Red thorn Magic guarri Sickle bush Tamboti Tree wistaria Umbrella thorn White raisin		sweet grass

Typical Animals:

Predators	Browsers	Grazers	Special Interest
Lion	Kudu	Buffalo	White rhino
Leopard	Giraffe	Zebra
Cheetah	Elephant *	Waterbuck
Hyaena	Impala *	White rhino
	Duiker	Wildebeeste
	Steenbok
	* Denotes animals that browse and graze

Camps:

Other Ecozones:

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Maps:

Kruger National Park Map

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What's Interesting Nearby:

Blyde River Canyon

God's Window & Graskop

Historical Mines

Photographs:

A typical road in Kruger

The Orpen Dam view site

The Afsaal picnic site

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