In her book, Bitch: A Revolutionary Guide to Sex, Evolution and the Female Animal, zoologist Lucy Cooke looks into the very surprising way in which animals get it on.
A new study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B found that male elephants are more aggressive when there are fewer older elephants around, and this may have important conservation implications. The new findings lend support to the idea that hunting and poaching will only increase elephant aggression towards humans.
Researchers studied the behaviour of 281 male African savannah elephants in an all-male area in Makgadikgadi Pans National Park, Botswana, over three years.