Mother Elephant Saves Baby From Drowning

Mother elephant rescues baby from drowning in a waterhole and then gets stuck herself. Location: Kruger National Park, South Africa.

Winner of the 50/50 Veldfokus competition.

Video taken by Mariaan de Klerk (www.mariaandeklerk.blogspot.com)

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  Pets & Animals

[RICHMOND94114]

I LOVE ELEPHANTS.

[BrainzEntertainment]

I love they way how they seam to talk and celebrate on the last part of the video.

[aikeninc]

Yup... She knew the baby wasn't trying enough options lol. Thats really cute. She decided "skrew it" and got herself in the water after trying to tell the baby it was getting out on the wrong side. Damn kids lol

[aikeninc]

I dont think she was worried that she would get stuck "although something like this can turn nightmarish real quick for such a large creature with no hands" but I think she was strategising? There first attempt at helping is to walk away so the epiphant in trouble would feel more encouraged to try harder. This epiphant might not even be the mother. She looks young and prolly just saw a solution the others weren't attempting

[iViggmo]

Um, how do you know that?

[flyinthebug35]

Mama risked her own hide to save her baby! So glad they both got out safe and sound :) Humans could learn something from these majestic animals.

[Elephunk Ghost]

Much more empathetic and loving than people, that's for certain.

[Elephunk Ghost]

First of all it was a baby. Second, Elephants are far from 'weak', just test them and see what happens.

[Margaret Lam]

animals are so weak.. poor thing

[mykylc]

darn it Junior!

[Alexouss]

Do you think also it is like a sign of joy, congratulation, some of that ? I love it too ;)

[ChaangChangChang]

1:44 ♥*(_ _ )