African Elephants Behavior

Before you start your once in a lifetime safari in Africa, it might be a good idea to read on a little bit about these intelligent giants (thick-skinned animals). Under normal circumstances the female elephants and their young people live together in close family units, and mature males usually remain solitary. This matriarchal society is based on a group of related females and their young offspring, but may include some unrelated individuals, were added to the group.

African Elephants Behavior

Family group usually consists of anywhere between 2 and 40 female elephants usually rest in the family for the rest of their lives. Different family groups are often combined together to form large groups of elephants and lived in most cases, is the oldest mother. Older women will catch most cases, such as the protection of the group, because their many years of knowledge and experience.

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After the meeting a successful mating, during pregnancy the mother will be 22 months. Babies grow up very much like humans, as they began to mature in their teens and experienced a similar adolescence. This long childhood to the young elephants have enough time to learn all the skills needed to survive in the wild. Young women tend to act as a nanny before the young people of all older mothers so that they can find enough time to eat right, therefore, provide better quality milk, and their legs. Families and groups of these complex due to the fact that an alliance with the dominant matriarchs of families and the elderly have a higher reproductive success compared with the young and inexperienced matriarchs. There is also a higher survival rate of larger groups with many young female nurses.

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Women living apart as Chicago, teenagers leave the bull in the herd is usually about 14 or 15 years old to join their male counterparts. In the next 16 to 18 young men under the age of growth and maturity, until they can finally compete successfully and the only place for women in the age 35.These Bulls will continue to grow bigger and stronger most of the body of their lives, and constantly increase mating chances of success.

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Elephants communicate with each other using a complex series of different voices. Although there are many new studies under way on elephant communication, there is still much we do not understand. These mammals usually have a different pitch, and to preach their rumbling under the circumstances. When everything is calm, there is no significant risk is very low voice tone. When they are excited or become a higher risk of the advocate and voice tone are also many. Finally, these magnificent beasts can also communicate with sub sound, generate sound, our limited human ear can not pick up.