Mother elephant stops her tiny baby from approaching tourists:

[tblue37]

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[Farmer-Rick]

1. Smart move Mom

Tourist carry diseases and can hurt baby elephant.

[magicarpet]

2. Donnie Jr. (trDUMP) was just off camera range seated in a,..

.... big ass gas guzzling Hummer,... loading his machine gun with Teflon coated bullets to add the baby elephant's head to his trophy wall - for macho man bragging rights.

Mama elephant knows a Nazi when she sees one. And was wise to encourage her baby offspring to steer clear of the bang-bang-bang Fascist gun humper cocaine addict. Who's main recreational pursuit includes gunning down and killing anything that moves - while using his arsenal of expensive hunting wild game rifles.

[TheBlackAdder]

21. He was pissed off. He always wanted a baby elephant head after watching The Young Ones.

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Now he has to wear another carcass for Halloween.


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[Blue Owl]

27. I pray to the Karma gods that they have something very special in store for Eric and Don Jr.

Something very, very grisly -- like where they need to be ID'd by dental fragments found in animal dung...

[dalton99a]

3. Kick

[niyad]

4. awwwwww

[GreenWave]

5. If only the GQOP cared about kids like their pachyderm symbol actually does

[littlemissmartypants]

6. Good job mom! I don't trust people either. Thanks for sharing, tblue37. ❤️

[calimary]

7. Mother Knows Best.

[Rebl2]

8. Good Mom move!

[CatWoman]

9. baby elephants are so cute

they are almost entirely all ears

[packman]

10. What beautiful, majestic animals

The GOP doesn't deserve that as a symbol - should be:

[ggma]

11. Mom is saying

"Uh uh baby, don't mess with those. Let's go"

[StarryNite]

12. Smart, protective mom.

[Bayard]

13. No no, baby

You never know what those creatures will do.

SO adorable!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

14. I would not want to be that close to a mama African elephant in the wild.

I can't speak her language and she might misinterpret my intentions.

[llashram]

15. very smart mother

stay away little one, danger!!!

[ratchiweenie]

16. She corrects him so gently. So sweet.

[3Hotdogs]

17. But Ma, she had peanuts to give me.

[ProfessorGAC]

18. Struck Me As Funny!

Tiny & elephant are 2 words I wouldn't expect in the same sentence!
It is a charming video, though.

[tblue37]

23. For an elephant baby it is very small--probably very, very young.

[ProfessorGAC]

26. I Know

I just found "tiny elephant" funny.
I'd probably find "huge microbe" equally so if I saw it in a title.

[Lucinda]

19. ❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️

[wendyb-NC]

20. Very good move

She got her baby turned around and heading the other way, with her. Thank you, for posting this video of these elephants, lovely, impressive creature. May they always be safe, and live their best lives.

[Xavier Breath]

22. Always best to avoid teh hoomanz.

[leftyladyfrommo]

24. I am such a sucker for elephants. And baby anything. nt

[Samrob]

25. More obedient than teenagers. nt

[Cracklin Charlie]

28. What a beautiful baby!

I wouldn’t let strangers near him either.

[demtenjeep]

29. I collect elephant figurines

I hate that the repukes use them as symbol

[Abigail_Adams]

30. Way to go

Mama!! I've become an even bigger fan of elephants than I was before after reading a book called "Elephant Company" about a British timber man in Burma in the early twentieth century. He developed such reverence for them and learned all he could, becoming a camp manager and caring for the elephants himself. Can't think of the author's name, but it's amazing.

The reason standing elephants constantly shift their weight from one side to the other is that it reduces the strain on their hearts. It's too hard to keep pumping blood back up to the heart unless the pressure of regular foot-plants on the ground push blood back up. Also, they communicate with each other subsonically, sending waves humans can't hear but if humans are near enough they can feel the air compression waves in their own bodies.