It was during a recent safari in Kruger National Park that we stopped to watch a small herd of elephants crossing a river. The last elephant to cross was a young male. It took a few seconds for the elephant to spot a bird called a grey heron, standing in the water not too far ahead of him. Like a real teenage boy, the young male stopped and thought he would first show this bird who is the boss of the river. The cheeky elephant was swinging his trunk repeatedly in the direction of the bird in an attempt to intimidate it. The bird didn’t look too bothered by this laughable behavior of the elephant and just kept moving away a short distance every time. The grumpy teenage elephant then started kicking water towards the bird, with the bird flying off a short distance. It was such a funny experience to watch this cheeky young male elephant going about picking on a bird that is a hundred times smaller than him