Let's talk about sex. Elephant sex. One of the more unique and poorly understood aspects of forest elephant behavior is a postcopulatory phenomenon known as "mating pandemonium". Forest elephants do not have defined mating seasons. Instead, elephant courtship is all about dominance, whereby bull males closely guard a receptive female before a mating event. When the time is right, the bull mounts the female in dramatic fashion. But the most exciting parts of forest elephant mating behavior come i

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