Context: Foraging & Comfort Technique
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Methods or techniques employed by elephants to achieve comfort or to feed effectively on particular types of vegetation or species of plant.
Behaviors in this Context (75)
Adorn-Body
AmbivalentBirthConflict & ConfrontationLone & Object PlaySocial Play
Body: Ears, Head, Trunk
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male+1 more
Bend-Down-Bite-Vegetation
Body: Body, Mouth
CalfInfant
Bite-off-Dirt
Body: Mouth
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male+1 more
Blow
Maintenance
Body: Trunk
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male+2 more
Break-Sapling
3. Other soundsBody: Body, Trunk, Tusks
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male
Carry
Calf Reassurance & Protection
Body: Trunk
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male+1 more
Coprophagia
Body: Mouth, Trunk
Juvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent maleCalfInfant
Dig-Minerals
3. Other soundsBody: Forefeet, Trunk, Tusks
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male+1 more
Dig-Water
Body: Forefeet, Trunk
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male
Digging
Calf Reassurance & Protection
3. Other soundsBody: Forefeet
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male+1 more
Dust-Wound
3. Other soundsBody: Trunk
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male+1 more
Dusting
Maintenance
3. Other soundsBody: Forefeet, Trunk
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male+2 more
Ear-Swat
3. Other soundsBody: Ears
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male+2 more
Fell-Tree
3. Other soundsBody: Body, Head, Trunk
Adult femaleAdult male
Filter-Water
3. Other soundsBody: Trunk
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male
Food-Sampling
Body: Mouth, Trunk
Infant
Food-Sharing
AffiliativeCalf Nourishment & Weaning
Body: Trunk
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent female
Food-Stealing
Calf Nourishment & Weaning
Body: Trunk
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male+2 more
Foot-Splashing
3. Other soundsBody: Forefeet
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male+2 more
Grasp-Branch-Bite
Body: Mouth, Trunk
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male+1 more
Grasp-Branch-Break-with-Foot
3. Other soundsBody: Forefeet, Trunk
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male
Grasp-Branch-Break-with-Tusk
3. Other soundsBody: Trunk, Tusks
Adult femaleAdult male
Grasp-Break-Branch
3. Other soundsBody: Trunk
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male
Grasp-Grass-Slice-with-Foot
3. Other soundsBody: Forefeet, Trunk
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male+1 more
Grasp-Kick-Grass
3. Other soundsBody: Forefeet, Trunk
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male+1 more
Grasp-Seedling-Pull
3. Other soundsBody: Trunk
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male+1 more
Grasp-Seedling-Slice-with-Foot
3. Other soundsBody: Forefeet, Trunk
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male+1 more
Grasp-Water-Plant-Pull
Body: Trunk
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male
Grasp-Water-Plant-Slice-with-Foot
Body: Forefeet, Trunk
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male
Guide-Branch
Body: Mouth, Trunk
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male+1 more
Head-Toss
Advertisement & Attraction
2. Other acoustic signalsBody: Ears, Head, Trunk, Tusks
Musth male only
Kick-Grass
3. Other soundsBody: Forefeet
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male+1 more
Nose-Picking
Attentive
Body: Trunk, Tusks
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male
Orient-Away
AffiliativeAvoidanceSubmissive
Body: Body
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male+2 more
Pack-Grass
Body: Trunk
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male+1 more
Pharyngeal-Pouch-Suck
Lone & Object PlayNovel & Idiosyncratic
3. Other soundsBody: Mouth, Trunk
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male
Pluck-Branchlets
3. Other soundsBody: Trunk
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male+1 more
Pluck-Leaves
Body: Trunk
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male+1 more
Pluck-Mushrooms
Body: Trunk
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male
Pluck-Object
Body: Trunk
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male+1 more
Pluck-Seed-Pods
Body: Trunk
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male+2 more
Plunge
3. Other soundsBody: Body
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male+2 more
Rip-Grass
3. Other soundsBody: Trunk
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male+2 more
Rip-Seedling
Body: Trunk
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male+1 more
Roll-Tree
3. Other soundsBody: Body, Head, Trunk, Tusks
Adult femaleAdult male
Rub-off-Dirt
3. Other soundsBody: Trunk
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male
Rubbing
Advertisement & Attraction
Body: Body, Temporal Glands
Adult femaleAdult maleMusth male onlyJuvenile Adolescent female+1 more
Scrape-Ground
BirthCalf Reassurance & ProtectionConflict & ConfrontationDeathSocial Play
3. Other soundsBody: Forefeet
Adult female
Scratch-Foot-Sole
Body: Forefeet, Hindfeet
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male+1 more
Scratch-with-Foot
3. Other soundsBody: Forefeet, Hindfeet
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male+2 more
Scratch-with-Object
3. Other soundsBody: Trunk
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male+1 more
Scratch-with-Tail
Body: Tail
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male
Scratch-with-Trunk
3. Other soundsBody: Trunk
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male+2 more
Scratch-with-Tusk
Body: Trunk, Tusks
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male
Scrub-off-Thorns
3. Other soundsBody: Forefeet
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male
Shake-Tree
3. Other soundsBody: Body, Head, Trunk
Adult femaleAdult male
Shake-off-Dirt
3. Other soundsBody: Trunk
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male
Step-On-Break-Sapling
Body: Body, Forefeet, Trunk
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male
Step-On-Sapling-Slice-With-Foot
3. Other soundsBody: Forefeet, Trunk
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male
Stow-Branch
Body: Trunk, Tusks
Adult femaleAdult male
Strip-Bark
Body: Trunk, Tusks
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male
Strip-Branch
Body: Trunk
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male
Sweep-off-Dirt
3. Other soundsBody: Trunk
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male
Tail-Fly-Swatting
3. Other soundsBody: Tail
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male+1 more
Tail-Swatting
Advertisement & AttractionCalf Nourishment & WeaningCalf Reassurance & ProtectionCourtshipMovement, Space & LeadershipNovel & IdiosyncraticSocial PlaySubmissive
3. Other soundsBody: Tail
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male+2 more
Thermoregulatory-Ear-Flapping
Maintenance
3. Other soundsBody: Ears
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male+2 more
Touch-Wound
Body: Trunk
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male+2 more
Trunk-Curl-Squeeze-Rip-Grass
3. Other soundsBody: Trunk
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male+1 more
Trunk-Fly-Swatting
3. Other soundsBody: Trunk
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male+2 more
Trunk-Squirt
3. Other soundsBody: Trunk
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male
Trunk-Sucking
AmbivalentAttentiveLone & Object PlaySocial PlayVigilance
Body: Mouth, Trunk
Juvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent maleCalfInfant
Trunk-Suction
Advertisement & Attraction
1d. Imitated and Idiosyncratic sounds, 2. Other acoustic signalsBody: Trunk
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male
Tusk-Ground
Advertisement & AttractionAggressiveSocial Play
Body: Tusks
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male+1 more
Uproot-Forb
Body: Trunk
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male+1 more
Wash-Water-Plants
3. Other soundsBody: Mouth, Trunk
Adult femaleAdult maleJuvenile Adolescent femaleJuvenile Adolescent male