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Food-Sharing

An individual sharing food with another or others. For example: a male (typically in musth) sharing a tree he has felled with others (usually females and calves); an individual purposefully dropping food, offering food, or putting food into the mouth of another individual who is begging vocally or gesturally (see Solicit-Food) or to one who is incapacitated (e.g. missing most of trunk due to snaring), sick, dying or dead (for the latter see Body-Feeding).

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Mature musth male, Gogogo, has just felled a tree. Nearby elephants hear the sound and come rapidly toward the it. When Gogogo comes through the branches from the other side, young males scatter but the females and calves remain. He shares the spoils. (Gorongosa, Mozambique)

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