This Rare Elephant Sighting Had An Unexpected Twist

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The Scientific Director of ElephantVoices, Joyce Poole, later saw the video footage of the encounter. According to her experience in the field, she believed that the mother elephant was actually something called the herd’s matriarch. That trumpeting she did earlier was not to show off her skills, but to alert other elephants that she felt her baby was under the threat of attack...

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