With the trunk down or extended up the length of a tree trunk, resting the head and trunk against the tree and employing the weight of the entire body to push it over. While females and younger males are capable of felling trees with smaller girths, only large adult males are able to fell larger trees.
A male in his late teens or early twenties raises his head and rests the underside of his trunk along a palm tree, pushes and knocks it over. (Gorongosa, Mozambique)
