Elephants are highly social animals. Their complex society focuses on maintaining group cohesion and a strict discipline regime ensures social order all times. Herd life predominantly revolves around guarding, rearing, and teaching calves, activities engaged in by all herd members. Elephants practice a matriarchal society. Females live in herds of related individuals with their successive offspring. The herd is lead by the oldest cow known as the matriarch.
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Photo capture date & Location: 2015-01 Mabula Timeshare
