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GopherGal

(1,999 posts)
3. Celebrating? Or Guarding?
Mon Feb 8, 2021, 05:39 PM
Feb 2021

Or do the noises serve to give notice to any nearby predators that the newborn will NOT be a quick easy snack (if grandma and the aunts have anything to say about it -- and they will!)

tblue37

(64,979 posts)
4. Definitely protecting (also kicking dust to cover the smell of the birth). But I bet they
Mon Feb 8, 2021, 05:42 PM
Feb 2021

are also celebrating. Elephants clearly love their babies.

applegrove

(118,015 posts)
6. I wonder if the tusks have been reduced on this herd to keep poachers
Mon Feb 8, 2021, 07:59 PM
Feb 2021

Away. Heartfelt trumpeting. I hope they are all safe.

Arkansas Granny

(31,483 posts)
7. I saw a documentary a few years ago that mentioned tuskless elephants.
Mon Feb 8, 2021, 08:46 PM
Feb 2021

One theory was that so many had been killed for their tusks that the tuskless gene was becoming more prevalent in many herds.

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