Seeing this photo of an elephant family on&nbsp;Smithsonian magazine&amp;#8217;s Tumblr&nbsp;reminds me of an observation by the acoustic biologist Katy Payne, who spent most of her years researching elephants in the Dzanga clearing:

&quot;Families in elephants are females related to one another, sometime three, even more, generations who live together and take care of each other&amp;#8217;s young &mdash; a very tight, very integrated community. The males are considered to be outside the families, even though they are of course progenitors, but they live a very different kind of social life that involves competition be