Elephants are pretty ugly. Between the wrinkles, huge noses, and bad breath I had often wondered how they could ever convince each other to have sex. But it turns out that the answer is very similar to the solution that ugly humans have found. Chemicals.
Whereas we drink ours, thus making the sleazebag at the end of the bar more palatable or encourage someone to drink theirs, thus making us seem like less of a sleazebag, a bull elephant will discharge a “dark, oily substance from a temporal gland on each side of its head about midway between the eye and the ear.” This hardly sounds appealing to me but the chicks dig it.
