Out of the Jurisdiction: Elephants

When in the bush, lodges don’t have fences, so the animals you came to see often come to see you.

This big bull elephant arrived in camp the day I arrived and stayed around that evening to munch on the tasty tree leaves right outside the room.  The next morning he moved toward the parking lot.

We learned to beware breeding herds of elephants with protective mothers and bull elephants in must.  The primary meaning of "in must" is "I am horny."  The secondary meaning of "in must" is
"If I don't find a receptive female elephant soon, I am going to start a bar room brawl."

We came across a breeding herd of perhaps 30 elephants, with mature adults and juveniles as young as one month old.  At first the elephants were charming, until they started to
feel threatened and began moving to encircle our vehicle.

Fortunately, a bull elephant in must that was leading the herd found a beguiling female
 to distract him.  We skedaddled.