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).

References: Poole & Granli 2021. (Full reference list)

This behavior occurs in the following context(s): Affiliative, Calf Nourishment & Weaning, Foraging & Comfort Technique

Food-sharing

Context: Foraging & Comfort Technique (1)

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)

Food-sharing

Context: Foraging & Comfort Technique (2)

Mature musth male, Gogogo, has just felled a tree. The sound of the tree breaking and falling attracts the Mabenzi family and others including a number of young males. He shares his tree with perhaps 50 elephants. (Gorongosa, Mozambique)

Food-sharing

Context: Foraging & Comfort Technique (3)

A series of clips show the Mabenzi family and associating males reacting to gm0016 shake a tree. In the first scene gm0016 Shakes-Tree. In the second gm0049 stops feeding, gives an Ear-Flap-Slide and starts to move toward the tree. In the next section the whole family converges on gm0016 who magnanimously shares the seed pods he has felled. (Gorongosa, Mozambique)

Food-sharing

Context: Foraging & Comfort Technique (4)

A series of clips show the Mabenzi family and associating males reacting to gm0016 shake a tree. In the first scene gm0016 Shakes-Tree. In the second clip gm0049 stops feeding, gives an Ear-Flap-Slide and starts to move toward the tree. In the next section the whole family converges on gm0016 who magnanimously shares the seed pods he has felled. (Gorongosa, Mozambique)

Food-sharing

Context: Foraging & Comfort Technique (5)

Gogogo has felled a tree and elephants have gathered around it including the Mabenzi family and males. (Gorongosa, Mozambique)

Food-sharing

Context: Foraging & Comfort Technique (6)

Gogogo has felled a tree and elephants have gathered around it including the Mabenzi family and males. Gogogo appears in view toward the end. (Gorongosa, Mozambique)