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The park features a variety of birds in addition to crocodiles, hippos, lions and lechwes.[1] The park has the largest elephant population on the African continent.[2]The park extends for about 10,600 square kilometers from Kasane to Savuti, this park includes parts of desert, swamp and woodland, it is part of the Kalahari, so it has an arid environment, in the northern part cross the Chobe and Linyati rivers.[3] From the 1960s onwards, the elephant population in the area increased while for other types of mammals it varied somewhat, with some decreasing in number and others increasing.[4] By the mid-1960s, the reserve had 38 large mammal species. In 1974, the Mikaelelo Game Reserve was added to the park. In 1964, the park was opened to the public and became a tourist attraction in which it received 2500 visitors in the first year of opening.[5] One of the parts of the national park is the Savuti Marsh, which is characterized by a tall grassland that is located near the Madabe Depression, an ancient lake in the north of the country, [6]
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- ^ Skarpe, Christina; Toit, Johan T. du; Moe, Stein R. (2014-04-02). Elephants and Savanna Woodland Ecosystems: A Study from Chobe National Park, Botswana. John Wiley & Sons. p. 72. ISBN 978-1-118-85858-5.
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