Baby Elephant rescue

Female elephants resuce a baby elephant from drowning in a waterhole. For Africa tour details visit www.gardenroutetrail.co.za. For licencing rights for the original content of this video contact Mark at mgd@gardenroutetrail.co.za.

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  Pets & Animals

[1big11little1]

This really is a beautiful thing to see but wonder why the person videoing cut out the two most eventful parts...when the baby elephant fell in and when the baby elephant was pulled out. Sorry but that's kinda stupid.

[Naturevid]

I agree it would have been great to capture the baby elephant falling in. But then filming nature is a once only event - I have just finished filming the herds arrival at the waterhole and did not anticipate that one in 300 elephants would fall in. I had just finished filming when 3 seconds later the baby fell in. Then having just completed a weekend of filming in the reserve, our memory discs were all full, we ran out of space and missed the exit scene.

[237cupcake]

people who say animals dont go to heaven should watch this video

[Elephunk Ghost]

Better than people, no contest

[Suzanne O'Flaherty]

i think any time that is captured on film is amazing. 1big11little1 - some people can never be satisfied - all or nothing! thanks for sharing what you could Naturevid - i appreciated ALL OF IT!!!

[cdts20]

ah just shows how smart elephants are - they all worked together there to save the baby ele

[RainingBlackDolls]

It is amazing just how smart and compassionate these animals are. I can't think of too many species that would put this much of a group effort into saving a child that likely didn't belong to all but one of them.

[tashaurora]

life is difficult when u dont have hands

[misslovelyme69]

FAB x

[The4LA2Baker0]

Elephants use tools, mourn their dead, communicate on many levels, retain cultural memory, and are self-aware.

Elephant brains are born at 35% their adult weight, compared to 28% for humans. Scientists estimate that the elephant brain grows for about ten years, giving elephants an enormous amount of time to acquire knowledge. Like humans, elephants might depend more on learned behaviors than instinctual behaviors for survival. And that makes elephants and humans unique in the animal kingdom.

[Gagan Kalkat]

We go to heaven? LMFAO

[2000Betelgeuse]

Sad but true, animals are more humane that we are some to the time

[CianMcElhinney]

People don't go to heaven either.

But if there was a heaven there'd be more animals then people!