Sometimes it takes more than one image! The first image below is a tease. First a bit of background. While on safari on Botswana's Chobe River, you are on a specially designed boat with seven other photographers. These boats are very comfortable with chairs and supports for your camera. Stage set - OK, let's go.
Several juvenile bull elephants had been displaying aggression to us for several minutes. There were a few mock charges and and they splashed us. No danger at all, just being "teenagers". Most of the young bulls soon got bored with us and moved off, but this individual decided to make one last display. In the first image he dives below the water's surface which we found very puzzling.
The next thing we knew the elephant pops up and is holding a large stick in it's trunk. Even our guides were surprised at that, but the show was not over.
The elephant then tossed the stick up into the air, splashed us one more time and moved off very quickly, having reminded the strange creatures in that metal thing whose river it was. I don't shoot video, but this was one time it might have been nice, because sometimes one image does not tell the story.
