Elephants are the most powerful land animals. They live a well-organized and complex social life and are very sensitive to the intimate relationships between individual members of the herd. This sensitivity, however, does not preclude the rivalry between males. In the higher animals dispute may be over females or territories, or just for "sport." This duo is fighting for fun, but when elephants are involved, great force is used, and damage can occur. I gave the painting a low view point so that the elephants would loom like a powerful mountainous mass. From the periphery the egrets scatter like dust from an explosion. - Robert Bateman