We’d been sat in our Toyota Hilux, still as statues, for five full minutes. Those 300 seconds felt like an eternity, as the elephant paced towards us like a beered-up thug barreling down a cramped ...

An elephant in musth is looking for a mate with such singularity of purpose that he hardly takes the time to eat or drink. He engages in exaggerated displays of aggressiveness such as curling the ...

Source: Esin Üstün, via Flickr. Distributed under a CC BY 2.0 license. Decades of research have emphasized the importance of matriarchs in leading elephant herds. A herd, made up of related female ...