If a new elephant matriarch lacks the accumulated experience of extreme droughts or floods, the whole family could be in trouble.
Evidence
On the Loss of a Matriarch (Save the Elephants)
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
- XREF: connects to: Extreme misfortune can have cascading negative effects on families. — Crews, Harry, A childhood the biography of a place, 21