Female elephants and their calves form incredibly tight family bonds; related females may stay together for their entire lives. The elephant in the centre of this painting is an older female, to her left is a sub-adult approaching maturity, on the far right is a teenager while the calf at her side is only a few months old. The older female is almost certainly mother to all three. They were leaving a waterhole and I had inadvertently stopped in their way. They immediately formed a tight bunch, the small calf tucked in the middle for safety while the matriarch decided if I was a threat or not. I took one quick photograph and then moved out of their way, stopping some distance off to watch them cross the road and disappear into thick bush.

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