Twins are rare among elephants - fewer than one in 100 births - but the matriarch in this herd appears to have two same-sized babies at heel, but with different characters - one trying to keep up with Mum, one stopping to play. What do you think?
Watching elephants is endlessly fascinating, though it can be difficult to interpret what is going on socially unless they have been studied for a long time so that individuals and their relationships have been identified.
If you were beginning a study of this herd, would you decide this is a case of twins or two similar aged babies from different mothers? In the matriarchal society of elephants, adult females living together are likely to be sisters or cousins, maybe even mother and daughter, so one baby could be the uncle or aunt of the other!
This herd, on the shores of Lake Kazuni, in the Vwaza Marsh Wildlife Reserve, Malawi, is now being studied by scientists at the Lilongwe Wildlife Trust so perhaps - in due course - we might find the answer to such questions.
Video No.40 in the #BrightenYourDay series, for frustrated nature lovers in #lockdown because of the #Covid19 #pandemic.