African elephants fight each other. In these situations, males of a similar rank might fight each other due to simple scarcity of adult females. “If there are two elephants that are the same age, same size, but have not interacted with each other very much, so they have not established rank as yet — these are the situations where conflict might arise It's a powerful, and poignant, African proverb: 'When the elephants fight, the grass gets trampled. ' When powerful forces go to war, it's their pe