Elephant mating, fighting & pregnancy – Animals: The Inside Story – BBC

Elephant mating, fighting & pregnancy - Animals: The Inside Story - BBC
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From the creation of a fertile egg in a female matriarch, to the battles to find a mate, to the long biological journey to fertilisation, this amazing short video from BBC wildlife show ‘Animals: The Inside Story’ charts the incredible story of reproduction in the elephant world.

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  1. For those of you who have seen the 2016 movie "Brothers Grimsby" & remembered the very crude elephant sex scene, & you're probably wondering, "does that happen? If so, why do they do it?" Well, At 2:25 to 3:45 where it ends, there is answer.
    (or should i say: confirmed, wild, "unbelievable but true" answer)

  2. Even female elephants play mind games with males. Not only human females. Send out s signal make men fight over her then looses interest only to test if he is persistent enough. This is why males die before females bc they drive us insane

  3. So ….. if it takes the females ( 2 ) years to carry, then give birth, do the males in musth repeatedly attempt to impregnate other females in estrus until they are out of musth ?

  4. 5% of the comments are WOW THIS IS GREAT
    90% is weird perverts that really like elephants
    The other 5%? Well… It's j st people commenting without saying anything..

  5. Until this I didn't know that elephants fought each other at all. I always thought that they were peaceful. Are there any animals that don't fight to mate? From insects to mammals, they all seem to fight over something.

  6. First of all…the female looked like Echo, if anyone has watched "Echo and the elephants or the Amboseli" you will know what I'm talking about second…the part where her mating call is traveling looks like a horror movie third…it's not Echo cause her tusks are curved like that but longer

  7. If Elephants evolved to be as smart as humans, I can imagine how ultra annoying mating would be, how big a pain in the ass the women would be. After aggressively fighting other males because you're horny as hell, the woman plays hard to get. It's stressful thinking about it.

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