493 Elephant courtship
Liu Wei followed the elephant to find the herd.
The footage shows two elephants picking figs from trees with their trunks to eat.
"Brothers, there are two more there, and there are ...... here"
As the camera switched, seven or eight dwarf elephants appeared one after another, judging from their size and the length of their tusks, they were all juvenile elephants, and Liu Wei did not see the head of the herd, that is, the oldest female elephant.
"Brothers, generally speaking, the number of pygmy elephants in the herd is more than 20, several generations of elephants, and what we see now is less than a third of the whole herd, and I have followed along the way, and from the traces found, I think the number of elephants in this herd will be even greater. Liu Wei speculated from a distance.
For the time being, there was no rush to go up to contact the few elephants that were foraging.
The sound-loving bull elephant who led the way also blended in with the herd and began to use its long trunk to curl the roots of the fig tree.
Its body is already able to digest high-fiber foods like tree roots.
"Let's sneak around and take a look!"
Liu Wei kept his distance from the elephant with his live broadcast mobile phone, and cautiously walked around from the side, desperate to find the young elephants in the herd.
Soon, Liu Wei heard a cry coming from the rainforest.
The voice is long and loud, and the human ear cannot hear the infrasound waves clearly, but there is a hoarse feeling in the call.
Liu Wei frowned and became nervous, "Brothers, this is a warning from my parents, have I been discovered?"
"How do I know?"
"We're not there!"
"I didn't see the elephant leader!"
“......”
The audience was also in doubt.
Liu Wei looked around and found that in a place with dense foliage, there were two female elephants staring at him.
But the two females were only seven or eight years old, and they were still the objects of care in the herd, and they did not make a sound to alert the whole herd.
Liu Wei speculated that there should be other threats to the elephant herd.
He didn't explore for a moment, and focused on the two female elephants in front of him.
He walked up generously.
The two females rushed up with a flick of their noses.
Liu Wei took two steps back, stretched out his hand, and the female elephant walked back, returned to the original position covered by the leaves, and stood there staring at Liu Wei as before.
"Brothers, they seem to be a little scared of me, I need to show a friendly side to communicate with them!"
Leaning forward as he spoke.
The heads of the two female elephants leaned against each other, and when they saw Liu Wei getting closer and closer to them, they turned around and ran away at the same time.
Liu Wei smiled and said, "It's a little embarrassing, if they are afraid of me, they will definitely return to the elephant herd now, and I can find the center of the elephant herd by following me!"
Liu Wei cautiously followed behind the two female elephants.
Soon, several huge elephants appeared in the field of vision.
Liu Wei squatted down and hid in the grass to shoot.
"Damn, this one is big!"
"These are so big, they feel like Asian elephants!"
"It's estimated to be more than two meters and a half tall!"
"The biggest one should be the elephant herd parent!"
Liu Wei said softly, "Brothers, have you seen anything on the neck of that female elephant? As I guessed before, this huge elephant herd has been studied and protected by humans, and it is equipped with a GPS collar around its neck, which helps the conservation personnel to keep abreast of the dynamics of the elephant herd.
You're right, the female elephant is the head of the herd!"
"吭~吭~hiss~"
As soon as Liu Wei finished speaking, the adult female elephant raised her nose and mouth and let out a cry.
The sound is the same as before.
It is a warning to intruders with bad intentions.
Liu Wei was sure that the warning was not a reminder to him, but someone else or an animal.
After a few long whistles.
The members of the herd began to gather around slowly.
The number of elephants that viewers see on camera is also increasing.
Liu Wei leaned out and counted, "Brothers, I can see more than twenty-five elephants, there should be more, the number of elephants in this herd is conservatively estimated to be more than thirty!"
The gathered elephants spread out in a circular path, with the head of the herd in the middle.
Wrong......
Liu Wei tilted his head to look over, and a baby elephant, which was only the height of a female elephant's thigh, was sucking milk on the female elephant's abdomen.
"I've been looking for you for a long time, and you used to hide under the body of the female elephant!" Liu Wei smiled excitedly.
From far and near, the camera passes through the thick legs of several elephants and captures young elephants feeding milk.
Its nose is rolled into an S shape, and its two hind legs are bent and squatting on the ground, raising its head and holding Nana tightly in its mouth, sucking very hard!
"Wow, that's so bearable!"
"I want to eat Nana too!"
"Eat your paralysis, go make milk powder yourself!"
"I wonder if the breast milk of elephants is the same as the breast milk of us humans?"
"This question can only be confirmed by Ah Wei!"
"Ah Wei, you can go up and taste it too!"
Liu Wei smiled and said, "I have passed the age of breastfeeding, this baby elephant may be less than a year old, the female elephant will use breast milk to feed the child to two years old, the food of the Borneo dwarf elephant is relatively scarce, you let me grab a child's milk to eat, is this a human thing?"
"A serious nonsense!"
"You're just cowardly, afraid of being trampled to death!"
"Hahaha, don't expose him, you know it in your heart!"
Liu Wei: "Brothers, play and make trouble, don't joke with life."
Returning to the young elephant, you can see that in the family of the Borneo pygmy elephant, the baby elephant is the center of the universe, and in addition to its mother, its sisters, cousins, seven aunts and eight aunts will stand around it, and when danger is approaching, keep a vigilant and protect the baby elephant from the outside world.
It's unclear what intrudes on the herd and makes the whole herd nervous, but they've put up their best defensive position to meet them!"
"吭~吶~吭~"
The parents of the elephant herd, who were feeding their children, sounded the warning again.
The sound is louder.
It means that the threat is also getting closer and closer.
Suddenly, all the elephant heads were deflected in one direction - Liu Wei's right hand.
"Are you coming?" Liu Wei was very curious, got up and looked out through the grass.
A male elephant larger than an adult female elephant appeared, with two long sturdy tusks peeking out of his mouth, and he slowly strode towards the herd.
After hearing the warning from the female, she stopped and watched.
However, it did not take long for it to go straight into the herd, and the adult females of the herd did not drive it away, and the underage males did not do anything about it.
It walked behind the buttocks of a female elephant, raised its nose and touched the female's buttocks.
The rest of the elephants took a few steps to the side.
"What is it doing?"
"It doesn't seem like it's a member of the elephant herd, is it?"
"This elephant is as long as its tusks, and it has already reached adulthood, and Ah Wei said that adult male elephants like to live alone!"
"And what is it doing when it comes back?
Liu Wei looked at the barrage and smiled out of the corner of his eyes, "Brothers, it's courtship!"
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