Let's talk about sex. Elephant sex. One of the more unique and poorly understood aspects of forest elephant behavior is a postcopulatory phenomenon known as "mating pandemonium". Forest elephants do not have defined mating seasons. Instead, elephant courtship is all about dominance, whereby bull males closely guard a receptive female before a mating event. When the time is right, the bull mounts the female in dramatic fashion. But the most exciting parts of forest elephant mating behavior come i

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Visit Tanzania on Instagram: "A rare sighting of Elephants Mating in the world’s best safari destination, 📍 Serengeti National Park, Tanzania 🇹🇿 When a male approaches, a female in estrus may at first show wariness, but if she is interested, she will then leave the family group, walking with her head up and turned sideways to watch the male as he follows behind. The male may chase the female if she retreats and will chase off any other males. Elephants may stroke each other with their trunks