A mated female’s relatives and companions joining her in calling and displaying following a mating. Females streaming with Temporin, engage in Open-Mouth vocalising, calling with powerful Mating-Pandemonium-Rumbles, Roars, and Social-Trumpets while Head-Raising, Ear-Lifting and Tail-Raising. Their calls are associated with Rapid-Ear-Flapping and the aroused participants may Urinate and Defecate in excitement. Females may turn toward the male, reaching their trunks to touch his penis or his semen on the ground, or to touch one another, and, then, turn rapidly outward in a kind of Pirouette (away from the male; probably to ensure long-distance advertisement of availability of the oestrus female) and again, while Head-Raising, Ear-Lifting and Rapid-Ear-Flapping, continue to call. The Mating-Pandemonium is a form of Bonding-Ceremony and may include High-Fiving.
Amparo is Chased by Esau and other males. Esau tries Reaching-Over but she keeps running. She Tail-Swats to monitor how close Esau is. We hear her bond-group Rumbling and Social-Trumpeting in excitement in the background. Then we hear her emit a series of Estrous-Running-Rumbles and two Estrous-Roars as she is caught and Mounted by Esau. It appears to be a successful Mating and we hear the start of a Mating-Pandemonium as her family rushes to the scene. This is very intricate behavior to try to annotate and we have only marked some of the behaviors that occur during a Mating-Pandemonium.
As Amparo begins her Estrous-Song with a series of Open-Mouthed Estrous-Rumbles that are associated with Rapid-Ear-Flapping members of her family Rumble and Social-Trumpet overlapping their calls with hers. We see a young tuskless female, Dram, come in from the left Rumbling with an Open-Mouth and Rapid-Ear-Flapping as she moves to join Amparo. Dram is followed by a straight tusked female (and several calves) who appears to be Qapella. She Runs-Toward Amparo Rapid-Ear-Flapping and we believe she gives a Social-Trumpet. She moves to Amparo's side and Amparo greets her Trunk-to-Mouth - both display Head-Raising and Open-Mouths as they do. The calling continues though softer and is drowned out by the wind. (Amboseli, Kenya)
