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  • @jaydensanchez9528
    @jaydensanchez9528 3 ปีที่แล้ว +172

    A new baby is something to be excited about..... after two years in the womb, yeah I think I’d be damn excited to lol adorable

  • @DollSchmidt4429
    @DollSchmidt4429 2 ปีที่แล้ว +109

    It's really amazing how protective the family are of the baby and how protective they are of each other

  • @amycastor2872
    @amycastor2872 3 ปีที่แล้ว +227

    He was trying to mate with the mother who just gave birth. All the smells of a baby being born can get the male elephants excited. The aunties come in the protect the baby.

    • @JanusHoW
      @JanusHoW 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      It's more to protect the babies from predators. Only an entire pride of elephant specialist lions could even hope to bring a full-grown adult down, but an elephant calf is an easy meal that even a single lion could bring down. But only the most reckless predator would even try to take a calf under the watchful gaze of the mother, grandmother, aunts and maybe sisters.

    • @yamirathrachoo1377
      @yamirathrachoo1377 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      3:48

  • @Epic11705
    @Epic11705 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    fun fact; the reason the baby looks so dirty is because the mother nudges and kicks dirt over his body to dry him up and cover his scent from predators

  • @sidd_not_vicious2609
    @sidd_not_vicious2609 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    that baby and all them have been communicating for months in mommas belly..I love elephants so much.

  • @qt9716
    @qt9716 6 ปีที่แล้ว +175

    actually he was trying to mate with the mother. it's very common, he mistakes the smells of birth, look closely you will see it's the mom he's mounting. (the mom has blood and fluid down her leg, etc.) I've watched other videos where this is explained in detail. I always feel sorry for the mother, hard enough she just gave birth without a male trying to mount her right afterwards.

    • @debrahouston2884
      @debrahouston2884 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      I was wondering if that were the case. Then, when narrator said an aunt adopted the calf, I KNEW the bull was trying to mount the mom.
      Poor baby was almost trampled to death bc of that MUSGUIDED BULL! 🙄🤬

    • @u59n
      @u59n 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @Lineage First not his baby

    • @kirstieb8025
      @kirstieb8025 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      damn bull

    • @sophiasaccone8121
      @sophiasaccone8121 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@kirstieb8025 Now I know why the females are so protective, of the mom and calf, right after birth.

    • @aurora0534
      @aurora0534 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Lol men

  • @dritemolawzbks8574
    @dritemolawzbks8574 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    It was such a a beautiful scene before the frisky bull showed up.

  • @TaterChip91
    @TaterChip91 3 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    That baby had to have been terrified as all hell lmao. Its been chilling in its own studio apartment for 2 years, then it gets evicted and suddenly surrounded by gigantic ass animals using their feet to make you stand up. With no regards to you experiencing gravity and weak legs right off the bat lol

    • @mel...s
      @mel...s 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Great comment... reminds me to push through the discomfort because there are necessary for survival/success/growth

  • @ccharms60
    @ccharms60 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Wow 😳 this was a great video I'm like over her trying to yell out to the female to circle him🤭 my heart was like nooo when he kicked him but how awesome was it to see the whole family of female 🐘🐘show up and protect him🥰

  • @bonsaitreehouse5534
    @bonsaitreehouse5534 8 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Four legs and two trunks

  • @Paraprax
    @Paraprax 11 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    "Some of them act badly because they've had a hard life, or have been mistreated... but, like people, Mrs. Simpson, some of them are just jerks."

    • @titaneden7825
      @titaneden7825 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      i realize I'm pretty off topic but does anybody know of a good website to watch new tv shows online?

  • @coopmuch56
    @coopmuch56 12 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    Holy shit elephants have evolved a 5th leg!

    • @sanguvarisu
      @sanguvarisu 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      😂😂😂😂 lmao

    • @veuriam
      @veuriam ปีที่แล้ว +2

      A 6th!

    • @aurora0534
      @aurora0534 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Just males' thing 🤣🤣🤣😂

  • @kalel311superman9
    @kalel311superman9 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    The elephants won't notice the poop that seems to be following them

  • @emmahorton7
    @emmahorton7 12 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    I still love elephants, but this poor baby. I didn't know the bulls hung around the herd, someone must have been ready to mate? He's really obnoxious. The way he's batting that baby around. What a relief when he leaves! I thought the baby was going to get hurt or worse. It's amazing how he can be in the middle of all those legs and they don't step on him. Such a good mother and aunts!

    • @mrj.kottari8453
      @mrj.kottari8453 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Phant bulls smell the females' heat pheromones from a looong distance. They don't hang around family groups, they visit only when one of the cows is "ready"..

    • @debrahouston2884
      @debrahouston2884 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It is indeed amazing that they don't ever step on the baby! 🥴💞🐘💞

  • @kaifriendship816
    @kaifriendship816 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I love these animals

  • @debrahouston2884
    @debrahouston2884 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Thank God for the CAVALRY!!!

  • @ArcadePerfect
    @ArcadePerfect 13 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Phew!
    Some great cinematography.

  • @ncl1p
    @ncl1p 13 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    Now imagine this with a drunk Uncle crashing a baby shower :p

  • @LeoJBatt
    @LeoJBatt 5 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    One of God's mist awesome creations!!! Love them so so much!!!

  • @cherryboy4271
    @cherryboy4271 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    hey this is amazing seeing a baby elephant

    • @DollSchmidt4429
      @DollSchmidt4429 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's amazing how protective the family are

  • @agnessgnesanges7669
    @agnessgnesanges7669 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Welcome to New world baby elephan god bless you darling be save with mom and family daling

  • @devoidchess
    @devoidchess 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great sumbission, I have missed vids like this on this channel this year.

  • @xMikanNamix
    @xMikanNamix 13 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Elephants are amazing O_O

  • @Ondrus21
    @Ondrus21 12 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Beautiful animals!

    • @NoobPatel
      @NoobPatel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Welcome to 2022!

  • @missbee7745
    @missbee7745 ปีที่แล้ว

    My Goodness, What A Dumpling!!! 💟🐘💟

  • @xxsdoriginalxx7783
    @xxsdoriginalxx7783 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I love nature

  • @billsaunders1
    @billsaunders1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    I’d like to know more about what happened to the calf. These videos are always too short for me.

    • @JanusHoW
      @JanusHoW 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Hopefully it is now a fully-grown adult, perhaps with children of its own.

    • @cameronhowe1110
      @cameronhowe1110 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@JanusHoWThis video is 12yrs old and bill elephant only become preferred mates after 30-ish.

  • @ilhsfm
    @ilhsfm 13 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    so awesome

  • @bapiyadebbarma
    @bapiyadebbarma 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When I saw all the elephant back kick video remind me of HBK.... But that calf calling Mom sound is so sweet

  • @marianneritavanvliet4554
    @marianneritavanvliet4554 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wonderful

  • @mochisam3540
    @mochisam3540 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    2:40 omg that poor baby

    • @watchensee
      @watchensee ปีที่แล้ว

      What else to expect from a horny male?

  • @iwannaplaycs
    @iwannaplaycs 13 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    you mean his fifth leg, i think....

  • @kembangwengi3822
    @kembangwengi3822 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Poor baby elefents

  • @Drinapropriatetouch
    @Drinapropriatetouch 13 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    I had to laugh at his nonchalant backward kick @ about 2:39. Elephant calves are quite tough and as David says if the bull wanted to do real harm the scene would be a lot different.

    • @badgyrl310
      @badgyrl310 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Interesting. None of it was funny to me. A full grown male elephant kicked a damn newborn. But to each his own.

  • @MD-gj4hr
    @MD-gj4hr ปีที่แล้ว +1

    0:51 - 1:05 - 1:15 - 1:28 - 2:33

  • @kelvikelv5322
    @kelvikelv5322 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Amazing footage!

  • @julitakoz3941
    @julitakoz3941 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Super elephants

  • @gabe-po9yi
    @gabe-po9yi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Wow, talk about bad timing.

  • @impbadminton
    @impbadminton 13 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Nice I like the robot camera is so smart anyone know where to get one?

  • @RigobertosTacoShop
    @RigobertosTacoShop 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    damn momma just cant get a break lol

  • @LionEntity
    @LionEntity 10 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    we are like this, in our own ways!

  • @kingdom121989
    @kingdom121989 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Now this is too funny the baby how it whels. Lol

    • @debrahouston2884
      @debrahouston2884 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      U'd squeal too IF u were side-swiped by a hard, gigantic tusk + then horse-kicked by an Elephant Bull in must! 🥺🤯

    • @kingdom121989
      @kingdom121989 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@debrahouston2884 poor little tank tank

  • @cillitafresh92
    @cillitafresh92 12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    poor baby elephant :(

  • @StopWhining491
    @StopWhining491 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Baby like, "put me back, put me back!"

  • @capucchan8
    @capucchan8 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    lol too funny

  • @mirellamarie7956
    @mirellamarie7956 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That was horrible ! Poor little baby !

  • @castafioreomg
    @castafioreomg 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I like how the females also have tusks 😅

    • @user-ob4sq6fi3s
      @user-ob4sq6fi3s 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes. In African elephants, both male and female elephants have tusks. Unfortunately that's the reason no elephant is safe from poachers 😢

  • @front331
    @front331 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    God said the hell with these creatures, let me give them a second trunk.

  • @HectorL360
    @HectorL360 12 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Serious case of blue balls.

    • @debrahouston2884
      @debrahouston2884 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Can't say he doesn't deserve it.
      Think how she felt! She had just given birth + gets trying to "stick it to her!" OMG!!!...Now? U GOTTA HAVE IT NOW?!!! 🙄

    • @user-ob4sq6fi3s
      @user-ob4sq6fi3s ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@debrahouston2884 it wasn't the mother. It was one of her sisters or cousins

    • @user-ob4sq6fi3s
      @user-ob4sq6fi3s ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@debrahouston2884 and if she wasn't in season to conceive, the herd would have kicked him out. She doesn't have to cooperate and the matriarch has complete authority on whether a bull elephant can stick around with the herd and even mate, or she'll show him the door with her family's backing

  • @KoricTheBrave
    @KoricTheBrave 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    @xyxean not sure that they did that but I think is that the elephants saw the moving dung pile and were like*wtf?* and investigated it. Yes I do know that elephants have poor eye sight but I am pretty sure they would notice a big pile of poop moving.

  • @donnaeckhardt6960
    @donnaeckhardt6960 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The baby is really screaming. Naughty papa

    • @user-ob4sq6fi3s
      @user-ob4sq6fi3s 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That bull is not the baby's father

  • @j.c.ca.o.l7035
    @j.c.ca.o.l7035 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I knew the moment the bull appeared, the baby was going to get kicked. When a bull wants to mate, he will kick and throw the baby around if necessary.

    • @user-ob4sq6fi3s
      @user-ob4sq6fi3s ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Not all of them do it. It usually happens to younger, more excited and impatient males.
      Older, more restraint and experienced bulls know that one way to ear points with the herd is to not be jerks to the babies. That's why they usually ignore the calves for the most part

  • @MrZING1234
    @MrZING1234 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    lol

  • @n-silvabts9178
    @n-silvabts9178 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    They almost killed the baby.

  • @meysopheara2029
    @meysopheara2029 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤❤❤❤🐘💋💋😘😘

  • @xyxean
    @xyxean 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    How'd they place the camera on the new born?

    • @user-ob4sq6fi3s
      @user-ob4sq6fi3s 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Disguised as a dung ball

  • @avikdey6818
    @avikdey6818 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Unity in diversity

  • @kumaripadmebadulukochchiya7995
    @kumaripadmebadulukochchiya7995 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

  • @tedstriker6646
    @tedstriker6646 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    @Jean Bird You do realize that an elephant cow is only fertile for three days every five years?

    • @annehaight9963
      @annehaight9963 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Um, no. Female elephants have an estrous cycle every year, and the fertility period within that cycle is 3-5 days.

    • @user-ob4sq6fi3s
      @user-ob4sq6fi3s ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Actually they're fertile 2-3 days every 4 months.
      They give birth to one calf every five years

  • @someawe
    @someawe 13 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I thought that was his third leg...

    • @watchensee
      @watchensee ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Or second trunk.

  • @spaceskipster4412
    @spaceskipster4412 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    "Shit happens...!" 👊🏼 💩 😂

  • @chrischow93
    @chrischow93 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wrong time to get you freak on bruh.

  • @oontgrad
    @oontgrad 13 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    @xXxSexyGoddessxXx the rock camera goes where the other ones can't. Like to get shots under the elephants and stuff. No cameraman was doing that.

  • @MrZING1234
    @MrZING1234 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    a verry thin 1:P

  • @frepi
    @frepi 13 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    @oontgrad
    Not Rock cam, dung cam...An electronic turd...

  • @watchensee
    @watchensee ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Just like male deep-sea anglerfish, the male elephant is nothing more than a supply of sperm for the female/s.

    • @user-ob4sq6fi3s
      @user-ob4sq6fi3s ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not quite. Granted, they do not partake in the care, learning and protection of calves but they play a vital role in the development of younger males.
      When bull elephants leave their family in their early teens, -usually between 10 and 14-, they seek out the company of other bulls. They're particularly drawn to older bulls who take the rookies under their wing and teach them new sources of food and water, survival skills and even battle techniques.
      That's why in areas where adult bull elephants have been exterminated due to hunting, the younger males are volatile, aggressive and uncontrollable

  • @HappyFaceKyle
    @HappyFaceKyle 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    omg elephant dongs

  • @boxsterman77
    @boxsterman77 ปีที่แล้ว

    Now that's a video that they won't be allowed to show in the Red States.

    • @teresaa96289
      @teresaa96289 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What does that have to do with anything ? 😂

  • @carlosbambos
    @carlosbambos ปีที่แล้ว

    JRE!

  • @sangeethsushmakonumuri8298
    @sangeethsushmakonumuri8298 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    What else can you expect from a male?!?!

    • @SOCIAL_MEDIA_CREEPS
      @SOCIAL_MEDIA_CREEPS 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That's exactly what I was thinking 🙄

    • @VG_164
      @VG_164 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Casual sexism in the comments lmao.

    • @user-ob4sq6fi3s
      @user-ob4sq6fi3s ปีที่แล้ว

      Keep your sexist comments to yourself. I am certain that you wouldn't have appreciated comments the other way around

    • @user-ob4sq6fi3s
      @user-ob4sq6fi3s ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@SOCIAL_MEDIA_CREEPS I am certain that you wouldn't have appreciated comments the other way around. So keep your sexism to yourself

    • @user-ob4sq6fi3s
      @user-ob4sq6fi3s ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@VG_164 Exactly. And I am willing to bet that they wouldn't have liked it if the comments were made the other way around

  • @truvelocity
    @truvelocity 13 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    This appears normal to me. He came to mate with a female in estrus, she happened to be there when the calf was born. He did not harm the calf, he pushed it gently and this resulted an unseemly act to the human observer.

  • @ionelionel6470
    @ionelionel6470 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    1:47

  • @jeanbird1735
    @jeanbird1735 10 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Typical male!!!! causes havoc, eveyone's attention must be on him so he kicks baby out of the way, get's what he wants and buggers off!!!!! Poor little soul,l it certainly was a baptism of fire.

    • @user-ob4sq6fi3s
      @user-ob4sq6fi3s 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      "Typical male"
      How about you keep those insulting comments to yourself, bud? It's unfair and you know it

  • @aurora0534
    @aurora0534 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Omg men are so sick.😳

    • @user-ob4sq6fi3s
      @user-ob4sq6fi3s 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      not everyone. So keep those insulting comments to yourself...

    • @user-ob4sq6fi3s
      @user-ob4sq6fi3s 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      and if you must know, if the females didn't want him around, they would have made him leave. The fact that he got to stay, much less mate with the receptive cow, is because the females allowed him to. Not because he coerced them to accept him.
      It's nice to actually read stuff about animals instead of judging them based on human morality, isn't it?

  • @breadtoasted2269
    @breadtoasted2269 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That male elephant pushing the baby around was so funny 😂

  • @henrysmith883
    @henrysmith883 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow he was so aggressive. Wasn’t he shy doing it in front of everyone? Not very romantic and he could have taken her for dinner first.

    • @user-ob4sq6fi3s
      @user-ob4sq6fi3s 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Elephants mate publicly. In fact, all the bellowing you were hearing during the mating was the family advertising the female's availability. An open invitation to any male might prove even fitter and strong enough to displace her present partner

  • @xyxean
    @xyxean 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    @PriestessOfBeauty :D

  • @MrNu287
    @MrNu287 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    ew

    • @mrj.kottari8453
      @mrj.kottari8453 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ew?
      This is how animals mate and reproduce. Male sticks his penis into a female, moves it there on and back and on for some time and leaves his reproductive cells in the female.
      This is how World has worked since first proto-mammal developed an uterus.
      This is how your parents did it 9mos before you were born. Except your mama was no elephant and your papa had no 5ft schlongy...
      #BIOLOGY

  • @rellik187redrum
    @rellik187redrum 12 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I don't think elephants are so adorable anymore, that's sick.....

    • @watchensee
      @watchensee ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Well, just like us and everything else in this world they're not perfect.

    • @berserker3414
      @berserker3414 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It's instinctive. The hormones are making him acting up, that's why the aunts are there.
      Some men have a pregnancy fetish so we aren't that different

    • @aurora0534
      @aurora0534 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Only Adult male animals are like that. Others are adorable

    • @user-ob4sq6fi3s
      @user-ob4sq6fi3s 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@aurora0534not all of them. Adult bull elephants are known for taking younger males under their wing when they leave their families and in areas where they get relocated, they put a stop to "delinquent behaviour" displayed by volatile, aggressive young bulls.
      Plus, bull elephants in their later years (late 40s, early 50s) are well received by the female herds and highly respected by almost everyone

  • @inlonging
    @inlonging ปีที่แล้ว +1

    1:32 “these are highly intelligent and sensitive creatures”
    A bull literally is trying to r@ pe the mom who just gave birth. Yeah. Sensitive and intelligent all right 😡
    Humanlike, though, as he’s clearly thinking with the wrong head.

    • @berserker3414
      @berserker3414 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Usually when sexual instincts kick in, empathy and rationality gets smashed to oblivion.
      We also do stupid sht just to get laid. The expression of ''post nut clarify'' exists for a reason.
      We also experience this and the bull was alerted by the smell of the hormones after birth. Also, it seems this only happens with inexperienced impatient bulls and not older ones. Remember, these creatures are individuals, of course you will find jerks

    • @inlonging
      @inlonging 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@berserker3414 its interesting how my sexual instinct has never involved the need to physically harm another individual *shrug* I suggest practicing self control, and of course we don't expect animals to do that, just as this one didn't.

    • @user-ob4sq6fi3s
      @user-ob4sq6fi3s 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This wasn't the mother. Another cow happened to be in oestrus the same time her relative gave birth.
      And you should also know that there's no rape in elephants. Bulls are not allowed to associate let alone mate with females unless the herd and especially the matriarch allow them to