Adult, adolescent or juvenile females gathering, guarding, herding, escorting, retrieving, leading, or driving, as a shepherd, another or other elephants. Shepherding covers a variety of actions that assists, protects, lifts, guides, or leads another elephant, primarily a calf. These actions may be accomplished with the body, head, feet, trunk, tusks or tail.
A young mother is standing by her sleeping newborn. She is eager to go but the infant is resting. She tries over several minutes to gently wake him touching him with her trunk, resting her trunk on him, nudging him with her foot and touching his face. Finally she begins Intention-Movements and walking and Waiting. (Maasai Mara, Kenya)
