elephant herd
Matriarch-led giants
A group of elephants traveling and living together.
Elephant herds are typically matriarchal, led by the oldest female, and consist mainly of related females and their young.
Males leave the herd upon reaching maturity.
The elephant herd moved slowly across the savanna toward water.
- stampedeFrenzied mass flight
- matriarchFemale family leader
- savannaTropical grassland, sparse trees
- tusksExtended animal incisors
- ivory tradeCommerce in elephant tusks
watering hole · water source · migration · trunk · calves · dust · dust bath · thundering · African · African plains · national park · pachyderm · grassland · rumble · family · protection · memory · long memory
- herds
- animal coloniesrookery, nesting colony, breeding colony, seabird colony, penguin colony
- African savannaacacia, acacia tree, baobab, baobab tree, cheetah
- group behaviorflocking, swarming, schooling, murmuration, shoaling
- Etoshasalt pan, waterhole, waterholes, watering hole, lion pride
- Afrotheriamammoth, mastodon, manatee, dugong, aardvark