Elephant is considered one of the planet's most intelligent animals, they exhibit behavior to the people left a deep impression. For example, resolve the problem, use tools, but also on death showed obvious sadness. But their mating behavior with us?
First of all, elephants social and human society are very different. Elephant population belongs to a matriarchal society, and their leader is one the oldest and most powerful female. Elephants by the entire leader and her companion were in charge of, the male population is only part of the development of the male will be driven out.
Small groups of females in the male side swinging, sometimes alone, sometimes in small groups. Reproductive physiologist Washington Smithsonian National Zoo Janine Brown said that, like the female population, as there are male population hierarchy, the oldest, largest size is usually male leaders.
However, a male elephant enters a rage once a year, at a time up to a few months it's testosterone levels will continue to soar, this time, even if it is not a boss to be dominant groups.
Females throughout the year in the breeding season. Will release pheromones (chemical signals) in the urine and vaginal secretions when females in heat. If a male elephants entered the female elephant population, it will be judged by the reproductive status of female elephant sniffing urine and genitals.
Males sometimes for the right to mate with females while fighting occurred, but such cases usually occur in the case who is the boss. (For example two violent state of male elephants.) And their method of solving disputes is through intimidate each other.
Unlike humans, elephants mating is not accompanied by a large public courtship. However, females may go a "flirt small step", it will head pretty row, turned her head to one side, walked the pace from long male walked past. Male must be hot on his heels, with a long nose and then let the female stopped. Other times, the male will not catch up to, but in the female elephant to climb before simply head on the back of it. "This position should not be too romantic ~" Brown said.
Elephants mating is fast, the duration of less than a minute. Male with long, strange shape of Tintin, and can be independent activities in the pelvis. Must be considered is the fact that the female vagina is located between the legs and face to the ground. After mating is complete, within two days the male will protect the females from other males intrusion, and mate with it again until the females no longer heat.
Obviously unpredictable things behind, they soon parted ways. Immediately continue with another male tenderness female, while females become pregnant within the next two years, mating time again, at least until after the baby elephant was born a year.
(Compiled: thousands of miles via livescience)
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