Game-viewing at Sun City, sleep in and take advantage of later sunrise

While Sun City might be thought of in terms of golf, casinos and water, the resort borders the Pilanesberg National Park, making it an ideal location for game viewing holidays.

Winter is the best time as the cooler temperatures mean the animals are active for longer periods of the day, plus guests can sleep in as the sun rises later, allowing for slower starts in the morning.

The fourth largest park in South Africa, Pilanesberg has more than 200km of roads and more than 7 000 animals, including the Big 5, all in a malaria-free environment just three hours’ drive from Johannesburg.

Mankwe Gametrackers, located in the Welcome Centre at Sun City, offers outdoor adventures activities in the 55 000 ha Pilanesberg National Park, from game drives to bush walks and hot air balloon safaris, along with boma…

The African bush elephants' wrinkled skin is one of its most defining characteristics. Scientists know that the wrinkles help elephants stay cool. That's because the wrinkles trap moisture. There was something they did not know, however. How does their skin get wrinkly?

A new study offers a surprising explanation for elephants' wrinkly skin. The mammals' skin thickens over time. New layers of skin place pressure on the outermost layer of skin. This outer layer is called the stratum corneum. This pressure makes the skin wrinkle.

At first, scientists thought that elephant skin wrinkled like dried mud or damaged concrete. The new study's co-author is Michel Milinkovitch. He works at the University of Geneva and studies animals' bodies and how they change. In a 2013 study, Milinkovitch found that shrinking skin made the scaly folds seen on crocodiles' skin.

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