At the interior of the park, Savute boasts most of the Chobe species except for water-loving antelope. It is best known for its predators particularly lions, cheetah and hyena of which there are large resident populations. The Savute channel from Linyanti River for about 100 km, carry water away from the river and releasing it into a vast swampland called the Savute marsh and further south onto the Mababe depression which is also fed by Ngwenzumba River from the north east. The Mababe immense and flat and fringed by thickets of trees was once the part of Makgadikgadi super lake. When filled with water it becomes the venue for thousands of migratory birds and animals, particularly large herds of zebra.

Geographically Savute is an area of many curiosities. One of its mysteries is the Savute channel itself which has over the past 100 years inexplicably dried up and recommenced its flows several times. This irregular water flows explains the numerous dead trees that line the channel, for they have germinated and grown when the channel was dry and drowned when the channel flowed again.