THE HOLY SHOW OF AN ELEPHANT (IN TWO PARTS)

I.

The giant elephant

Is a gray hierophant

Who cools all his fears

With island-sized ears.

 

 

II.

At a

Banquet

Or a

Feast

The giant

Elephant's

A

Mighty

Beast.

African, as well as Asiatic males will engage in same-sex bonding and mounting. Such encounters are often associated with affectionate interactions such as kissing, trunk intertwining or placing trunks in each other's mouth. The encounters are analogous to heterosexual bouts, one male often extending his trunk along the other's back and pushing forward with his tusks to signify his intention to mount. Unlike heterosexual relations, which are always of a fleeting nature, often males will form a "companionship" consisting of an older individual and one or two younger attendant males. Same sex relations are common and frequent in both sexes, with Asiatic elephants in captivity devoting roughly 45% of sexual encounters to same-sex activity.