Presence Of Mind.
The Elephants come to heat during summer, in some part usually summer is the mating season for them.
During this musth period the male elephants are really not be in their control, the sign of liquid flowing from its gland which is placed between eyes to hear is the clear to know it’s in musth.
so they sense the female and follow, if female is not interested or if small calf is with it then avoid the male and goes as long away as possible, here the one smart elephant sensed females nearby and was waiting near water hole and expecting females to arrive for water, the female elephants were with the many young ones and still were hidden in bushes,
Herd of gaur was drinking water silently, after sometime one big female came out and was heading towards male, but before reaching male it ran and chased away the gaur and diverted male away from waterhole and went to the male,
They were really happy at that moment it seems, the female smelled a male by trunk, and both were holding a trunk some romantic moment was happening,
Diverted the male along with it and went away at a distance from the waterhole, later the other elephants surrounded the young ones and came to waterhole drank water and left.
Slowly both were disappeared into the bushes.
Narrated and written by
Kishor.v
Naturalist Jungle Lodges and Resort.
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