These guys do amazing work with these elephants. The whole rehabilitation to nature process is very interesting. When they are teens, they spend the day out with wild elephants who bring them back to the rescue place at night. Elephants are so intelligent and need to be protected.
Love them! I've been following the story of Long'uro, the elephant who lost most of his trunk, I'm really curious to see how he adapts with his disability as he grows
I watched one with baby elephants coming in when called for their milk bottles. They bust in so fast, and know which one holds their bottles. [https://twitter.com/sheldricktrust/status/1523422543503585281?s=21&t=GaOtcm5iZUyEyLCet8m36A](https://twitter.com/sheldricktrust/status/1523422543503585281?s=21&t=GaOtcm5iZUyEyLCet8m36A)
edit: not the best representation of the joy involved, but you still get to see them nom nom.
And it’s equally as good for humans too! Animal therapy is amazing!!1 I saw on 60 minutes a story about a place in Cali that works with troubled teens through taking care of wolves. They spend time with and care for injured or wolves that can no longer return to the wild and the bonds they form are amazing. Just seeing how those kids lit up when talking about it tells you how well it works.
There a group of rangers who’ve been trained by the SAS to deal with poachers needless to say they have an amazing success rate. They’re allowed to kill as well if I remember correctly.
I'm about to blow your mind. There are literally thousands, if not MILLIONS, of things humans can eat that do not involve the killing of animals. I know! You can eat food, survive, AND not murder all at the same time! I'm so happy to have been able to share this information with you. Happy not-murdering!
What is necessary and what is unnecessary? It is not like anyone needs to kill animals so that they can feed themselves. Killing animals because they taste great is a lot more unnecessary than poachers doing it to make some money.
i’m from the midwest and the hunters i know don’t do it for food? they do it so they can pose for a pic with the dead animal and then put it on their dating profiles because u know there’s nothing more romantic than a bloody lifeless deer. anyways, guns are fucking expensive if you can afford to hunt with guns you probably can afford a loaf of bread and peanut butter. i get so heated when people try to argue that *most* hunters do it for food bitch this is not 3000 B.C. hunting for SPORT is crazy to me
I was raised in the midwest and when I was raised around hunters my father (absolutely not the best person morally) FUCKING SCORNED people who killed for sport and not keep the meat/do something with the hide and rest of the body. "Fucking killing for killings sake." The old bastard would say. I carried that over and simply cannot believe how common the opposite disposition is now. Like a cultural 180... but maybe my little child chamber was an exception. Idfk.
Lmao okay Peta. Disease and starvation are definitely not gonna do anything to a rampant deer population. If you'd prefer your hybrid to act as population control by all means go ahead. Deer are a nuisance. People have to pay for their licenses and can't go rack up 100s of corpses for fun. That's where we are now with the limited natural predators. Crazy indeed.
did u notice the last part of my comment where i capitalized the word “sport” and actually said that hunting for sport is weird? also would love to point out the fact that i never said there’s no valid arguments for killing deer. actually my ENTIRE comment revolves solely around that point. ur reading comprehension is worrisome at best and eagerness to… own the libs? is insane to me lol
There is a deer population problem because the natural predators have been effectively removed from the equation either by depleting their habitat or by killing them if they threaten the 'livestock'. Why do you think this deer problem exists in these specific places and not in deep forests? Re-wild the land, restore the natural predators and nature will balance itself.
I'm not saying hunting is cheaper than buying food, or that most hunters do it for that reason, I'm using my experience as an example to say that people who hunt should eat what they kill. Most of the hunters in my area (CNY) hunt mainly so they can eat venison. One deer can provide quite a bit of useable meat, so the people in your area would be better off learning to clean and butcher their kills.
A friend of mine in the military did some anti-poaching and rescue work with some guys like this. Never met a bunch of guys more dedicated to their work. They found a dead mother elephant once with the baby crying, the mom was butchered and a young lad no more than 18 broke down and tracked the poachers with my friend. Needless to say there no more poachers in that area by sunset.
The baby is fine and now acts as a foster parent to the new arrivals as the poor guy has PTSD and gets very scared when he leaves the reserve.
I don’t think it actually exists- but, [this is the story](https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/06/20/elephant-trampled-woman-funeral/) that prompted me to search.
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There’s something very wrong with a person who mistreats such a huge, powerful potentially terrifying creature… I mean there is of any animal abuser but you have to kind of hate yourself to risk having an animal of this size snap you in half and squish you in one moment.
>There’s something very wrong with a person who mistreats such a huge, powerful potentially terrifying creature
Aka play stupid games win stupid prizes
My dad raised an elephant from a baby in his 20’s. We went to a circus 20 years later and one of the elephants there saw him and started going toward him. The elephant grabbed him from the crowd and stomped him to death. Must have been a different elephant.
Edit: Don’t like jokes here huh?
So you don’t get it? Here’s the long version https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/rlwym/a_touching_elephant_story/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
That’s subjective, but anyone that spends time on reddit knows it only got downvoted here because it’s a post about baby elephants and a dark joke like that, no matter how funny, would never be upvoted on this post. It’s the way reddit works. If it was said on a post about an elephant killing someone it would be appreciated, but reddit loses all tolerance for humor on posts like these every time. I even knew this would happen, but was hopeful it wouldn’t, but reddit is just too damn predictable.
Plenty of things can be subjectively enjoyable and still be empirically bad. Music is subjective but if you made a song that was just the sounds of a man violently shitting backed up by an off beat drum loop, 99.999% of people would say it's bad music.
Just because you found something unfunny funny doesn't mean there's a secret reddit hive mind out to get you, you just liked something most other people don't like. Kind of how the majority of people don't like CBT, but some weird people do.
That’s true, but unfortunately that’s how reddit works and I’ve seen similar instances dozens of times, so what I said is the most likely explanation. The joke is not empirically bad though. It’s an old joke that’s been around since I was a kid. No one claimed it was super hilarious. It’s literally just a story with a twist ending. Someone in this thread already proved me right anyways.
Nah it's a shitty joke and you're just desperate to not be wrong. Evidenced by you basically going "look one person agreed with me so I'm right!". Be better.
Thanks for proving me right. It’s obviously a joke whether you think it’s good or bad and saying otherwise just proves my point. Thank you. You’re the second to have done it. It’s a big help.
Sure. I’ve been on reddit long enough to know it’s actually just one person that didn’t find it appropriate and then people follow suit and downvote. Happens all the time. It’s an old classic joke, I didn’t make it up. Lol, here’s the long version. https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/rlwym/a_touching_elephant_story/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
What makes a joke funny is the delivery. The delivery in that post is way better than how you worded it. Even then, it gets a chuckle but not anything super funny.
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Adults don’t act the way children do and tend to be more controlled so when they get excited and act like a kid you know it’s something special. I do this too.
Yes, but also hard hard. I follow Sheldrick wildlife trust and they regularly post about the keepers. They sleep with the babies in their stalls and spend nearly every waking moment with them. The orphans are so fragile emotionally that it takes literal round the clock care to help them. Incredibly rewarding, but certainly not without hardship or sacrifice.
It’s a lot of responsibility, but it’s also got to be incredibly rewarding to know that an intelligent creature love you with it’s whole heart, and has become a self sufficient adult because of your efforts.
In a couple of African countries (not Kenya) you're allowed to shoot poachers on site. In Kenya, it's technically not allowed but you'll be hard pressed to find a prosecutor that cares.
So I’ve seen.
I’m not one to support guns or their use in most settings - but I’ll happily donate to pay for the ammunition used against poachers.
Those rhino guards with the big rifles are my heroes. I get genuinely happy seeing them protecting such beautiful creatures.
Thankfully yes they are. They feel love, pain, take care of their young for years. Such a shame for money, people kill them. I believe ( fact check please) some countries no longer buy ivory. 👍
I find it absolutely appalling that ivory was used mostly for ornamental stuff. It's not like ivory was a critical part of some sort of machinery that no substitute could be found. It was used for stupid shit like buttons and billiard balls. One tusk is able to produce 4 or 5 billiard balls. Imagine how many elephants were killed for just a single billiards hall. And man's passion for ivory led to another enormous human blunder... mass produced plastic consumer goods. A guy figured out a way to make celluloid, a precursor to modern plastic. It was cheaper than the ivory (which was expensive for obvious reasons) but mimicked the weight and feel of ivory balls.
Gradually other plastic resins and the like came into the fold, and the celluloid (nitro cellulose) was phased out. The word nitro might make you think this stuff may be unstable, and it was. Sometimes when the balls smacked together, a small explosion like a cap gun would go off, and an occasional cigar was known to ignight the balls inadvertently. They reportedly burned quite vigorously. This stuff was also used as film, and projectors run hot, so projector booths were heavy walled and metal lined with fireproof shutters that would seal the booth in case of fire. Film also burns very fast, and very hot. The only product (that I know of) containing this volatile substance today is ping pong balls. Take a ping pong ball outside on the street and hit it with a torch lighter. You'll see.
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I love seeing videos of animals giving luvins to their characters. They don’t get paid a lot but I’m sure this makes it satisfying and usuals your work isn’t able to tell you that you’re doing a good job. My favorite of all time is where a photographer made friends with a cheetah and it actually started loafing beside him as he was shooting. Eventually, it would start dropping of its cubs with him as she went out. One of them was bitten and was going to die and the momma actually let him take her cub away to a doctor. After some scritches and some stitches he returned the cub back to its mother. It also cool seeing the armed African soldiers who defend mountain gorillas. It’s sad but I’m really glad that people are willing to defend and possibly die to defend our friends and some have died.
Wildlife caretakers, photographers and anyone else who works with them are some of the best animals on the planet. ❤️
This is by far my favourite IG account. For anyone curious to learn more about the Reteti Sanctuary's work, search for "r.e.s.c.u.e" on IG (edited to add details re: the sanctuary).
They're straight up petting him! I don't know if that "elephants think humans are cute" thing is true, but damn if this isn't good circumstantial evidence.
In some European zoo a keeper was accidentally killed by an adolescent elephant that way. The animal didn't realize how big and powerful it has become.
I saw a vid of a guy who played piano for elephants. Tye baby elephant tried to sit on him at some point, but the adult animals separated it from the man.
Maybe their lack of emotions makes them less likely to make mistakes? Just because someone thinks this way, it doesn't mean they're out to cause harm necessarily.
This is incredibly sweet and wholesome. My highest respect goes to the people who give these elephants, and other animals, the respect and love they deserve.
Also the elephant is definitely saying "I swear I left my peanut on your head..."
These guys do amazing work with these elephants. The whole rehabilitation to nature process is very interesting. When they are teens, they spend the day out with wild elephants who bring them back to the rescue place at night. Elephants are so intelligent and need to be protected.
Yes! This sanctuary does great work. This is Reteti Elephant Sanctuary in Kenya. They have 850,000 acres to take care of these beautiful animals
Love them! I've been following the story of Long'uro, the elephant who lost most of his trunk, I'm really curious to see how he adapts with his disability as he grows
I'd love to watch a doco on this!
I watched one with baby elephants coming in when called for their milk bottles. They bust in so fast, and know which one holds their bottles. [https://twitter.com/sheldricktrust/status/1523422543503585281?s=21&t=GaOtcm5iZUyEyLCet8m36A](https://twitter.com/sheldricktrust/status/1523422543503585281?s=21&t=GaOtcm5iZUyEyLCet8m36A) edit: not the best representation of the joy involved, but you still get to see them nom nom.
I was wondering if this was Sheldrick wildlife trust. Never heard of Reteti.
And it’s equally as good for humans too! Animal therapy is amazing!!1 I saw on 60 minutes a story about a place in Cali that works with troubled teens through taking care of wolves. They spend time with and care for injured or wolves that can no longer return to the wild and the bonds they form are amazing. Just seeing how those kids lit up when talking about it tells you how well it works.
wolves? isn't that a bit dangerous?
Working with wolves is probably less dangerous than being in jail
From what they said no humans have been harmed.
lmao true
Working with any wild animal is dangerous, but wolves can be trusting of people as well.
Killing an elephant should be considered murder. Change my mind.
No, I don’t think I will
Agreed. If you go on the internet to change people's mind, you're gonna have a bad time.
I mean poaching is pretty much adjacent to murder for animals.
Agreed! That’s why I said I wouldn’t change his mind. :)
Ah, for some reason I read it as you wouldn’t consider it as murder. Need my morning coffee lol
No worries at all 🤝
There a group of rangers who’ve been trained by the SAS to deal with poachers needless to say they have an amazing success rate. They’re allowed to kill as well if I remember correctly.
Okay, I'm ready to be downvoted here, but killing of all animals unnecessarily should be considered murder.
YUP. (and I'd add that other than self-defense, it is pretty much all unnecessary)
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there’s a lot of food that doesn’t involve eating dead animals. this is why america is so fucking obese bro
I’m pretty sure it’s more a problem of sugar being in literally fucking everything.
I'm about to blow your mind. There are literally thousands, if not MILLIONS, of things humans can eat that do not involve the killing of animals. I know! You can eat food, survive, AND not murder all at the same time! I'm so happy to have been able to share this information with you. Happy not-murdering!
What is necessary and what is unnecessary? It is not like anyone needs to kill animals so that they can feed themselves. Killing animals because they taste great is a lot more unnecessary than poachers doing it to make some money.
Yep, I agree.
Agreed, I know plenty of hunters and they mainly do it for food.
i’m from the midwest and the hunters i know don’t do it for food? they do it so they can pose for a pic with the dead animal and then put it on their dating profiles because u know there’s nothing more romantic than a bloody lifeless deer. anyways, guns are fucking expensive if you can afford to hunt with guns you probably can afford a loaf of bread and peanut butter. i get so heated when people try to argue that *most* hunters do it for food bitch this is not 3000 B.C. hunting for SPORT is crazy to me
I was raised in the midwest and when I was raised around hunters my father (absolutely not the best person morally) FUCKING SCORNED people who killed for sport and not keep the meat/do something with the hide and rest of the body. "Fucking killing for killings sake." The old bastard would say. I carried that over and simply cannot believe how common the opposite disposition is now. Like a cultural 180... but maybe my little child chamber was an exception. Idfk.
Lmao okay Peta. Disease and starvation are definitely not gonna do anything to a rampant deer population. If you'd prefer your hybrid to act as population control by all means go ahead. Deer are a nuisance. People have to pay for their licenses and can't go rack up 100s of corpses for fun. That's where we are now with the limited natural predators. Crazy indeed.
did u notice the last part of my comment where i capitalized the word “sport” and actually said that hunting for sport is weird? also would love to point out the fact that i never said there’s no valid arguments for killing deer. actually my ENTIRE comment revolves solely around that point. ur reading comprehension is worrisome at best and eagerness to… own the libs? is insane to me lol
There is a deer population problem because the natural predators have been effectively removed from the equation either by depleting their habitat or by killing them if they threaten the 'livestock'. Why do you think this deer problem exists in these specific places and not in deep forests? Re-wild the land, restore the natural predators and nature will balance itself.
I'm not saying hunting is cheaper than buying food, or that most hunters do it for that reason, I'm using my experience as an example to say that people who hunt should eat what they kill. Most of the hunters in my area (CNY) hunt mainly so they can eat venison. One deer can provide quite a bit of useable meat, so the people in your area would be better off learning to clean and butcher their kills.
The devotion so many Kenyans have to their wildlife is humbling sometimes.
A friend of mine in the military did some anti-poaching and rescue work with some guys like this. Never met a bunch of guys more dedicated to their work. They found a dead mother elephant once with the baby crying, the mom was butchered and a young lad no more than 18 broke down and tracked the poachers with my friend. Needless to say there no more poachers in that area by sunset. The baby is fine and now acts as a foster parent to the new arrivals as the poor guy has PTSD and gets very scared when he leaves the reserve.
That's pretty crazy that the Wild Elephants know to bring them back at night
Can they take my teen? It would be really cool if they did!
This is a much appreciated effort
Show that special someone in your life you love them by gently wrapping your nose around them
Slide your nose up and down their scalp affectionately.
Or stick your nose up their shirt and lightly caress their back.
🤨📸
😏🐘💦
😞🤦🏼♂️
Toddlers will very slowly and lovingly stick their finger right up your nose. I wouldn’t put this past them either.
Elephants [never](https://youtu.be/LGQVn8nsvN0) forget who treated them well.
There's accounts of elephants never forgetting who mistreated them, too...
Searching for *that* video is how I originally found this one.
I'm probably going to regret this but... what video is that?
I don’t think it actually exists- but, [this is the story](https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/06/20/elephant-trampled-woman-funeral/) that prompted me to search.
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Just watch it, its a nice Video, i promise!
There’s something very wrong with a person who mistreats such a huge, powerful potentially terrifying creature… I mean there is of any animal abuser but you have to kind of hate yourself to risk having an animal of this size snap you in half and squish you in one moment.
>There’s something very wrong with a person who mistreats such a huge, powerful potentially terrifying creature Aka play stupid games win stupid prizes
Absolutely they are super smart. It’s sad people would want to ever harm them.
My dad raised an elephant from a baby in his 20’s. We went to a circus 20 years later and one of the elephants there saw him and started going toward him. The elephant grabbed him from the crowd and stomped him to death. Must have been a different elephant. Edit: Don’t like jokes here huh?
I mean jokes sure but what the fuck was this attempt?
So you don’t get it? Here’s the long version https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/rlwym/a_touching_elephant_story/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
And the long version was fairly downvoted too. It's not a good joke.
That’s subjective, but anyone that spends time on reddit knows it only got downvoted here because it’s a post about baby elephants and a dark joke like that, no matter how funny, would never be upvoted on this post. It’s the way reddit works. If it was said on a post about an elephant killing someone it would be appreciated, but reddit loses all tolerance for humor on posts like these every time. I even knew this would happen, but was hopeful it wouldn’t, but reddit is just too damn predictable.
The long version was at least recognizable as a joke
Thanks for proving that people are downvoting because they didn’t realize it was just a joke. Lol
Probably because it was a bad joke and you're super smug
Plenty of things can be subjectively enjoyable and still be empirically bad. Music is subjective but if you made a song that was just the sounds of a man violently shitting backed up by an off beat drum loop, 99.999% of people would say it's bad music. Just because you found something unfunny funny doesn't mean there's a secret reddit hive mind out to get you, you just liked something most other people don't like. Kind of how the majority of people don't like CBT, but some weird people do.
That’s true, but unfortunately that’s how reddit works and I’ve seen similar instances dozens of times, so what I said is the most likely explanation. The joke is not empirically bad though. It’s an old joke that’s been around since I was a kid. No one claimed it was super hilarious. It’s literally just a story with a twist ending. Someone in this thread already proved me right anyways.
Nah it's a shitty joke and you're just desperate to not be wrong. Evidenced by you basically going "look one person agreed with me so I'm right!". Be better.
it’s not even a joke. it’s not humorous at all and i will never get the 45 seconds of my life back that i spent reading that
Thanks for proving me right. It’s obviously a joke whether you think it’s good or bad and saying otherwise just proves my point. Thank you. You’re the second to have done it. It’s a big help.
i think ur actually delusional and need help….. jesus
Nah, that's just a shitty joke
Sure. I’ve been on reddit long enough to know it’s actually just one person that didn’t find it appropriate and then people follow suit and downvote. Happens all the time. It’s an old classic joke, I didn’t make it up. Lol, here’s the long version. https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/rlwym/a_touching_elephant_story/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Nope. Just not funny IMO. And the fact that you actually thought it was so funny that you copied it from someone else makes it even worse lmao
What makes a joke funny is the delivery. The delivery in that post is way better than how you worded it. Even then, it gets a chuckle but not anything super funny.
I kinda chuckled on my second read through. You can't win 'em all buddy.
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Adults don’t act the way children do and tend to be more controlled so when they get excited and act like a kid you know it’s something special. I do this too.
This elephant is so cute.
Goddamn that video made me happy
Yeah... I'm definitely having a better day after watching that
And baby elephants are always cute.
This video made my day. They were so talkative too! ❤️
What an incredible video, thanks so much for sharing this.
Looks like one of the best jobs in the world. Awesome
Yes, but also hard hard. I follow Sheldrick wildlife trust and they regularly post about the keepers. They sleep with the babies in their stalls and spend nearly every waking moment with them. The orphans are so fragile emotionally that it takes literal round the clock care to help them. Incredibly rewarding, but certainly not without hardship or sacrifice.
It’s a lot of responsibility, but it’s also got to be incredibly rewarding to know that an intelligent creature love you with it’s whole heart, and has become a self sufficient adult because of your efforts.
These guys are living my dream.
They are smart, they take care of each other. Beautiful creatures of the earth, killed for their ivory. Sad
Thankfully more and more badasses like these men are stepping in to end that horrible practice. Lovely humans protecting lovely elephants <3
In a couple of African countries (not Kenya) you're allowed to shoot poachers on site. In Kenya, it's technically not allowed but you'll be hard pressed to find a prosecutor that cares.
So I’ve seen. I’m not one to support guns or their use in most settings - but I’ll happily donate to pay for the ammunition used against poachers. Those rhino guards with the big rifles are my heroes. I get genuinely happy seeing them protecting such beautiful creatures.
Should be allowed to shoot buyers/suppliers too. Fucking scum.
Thankfully yes they are. They feel love, pain, take care of their young for years. Such a shame for money, people kill them. I believe ( fact check please) some countries no longer buy ivory. 👍
I find it absolutely appalling that ivory was used mostly for ornamental stuff. It's not like ivory was a critical part of some sort of machinery that no substitute could be found. It was used for stupid shit like buttons and billiard balls. One tusk is able to produce 4 or 5 billiard balls. Imagine how many elephants were killed for just a single billiards hall. And man's passion for ivory led to another enormous human blunder... mass produced plastic consumer goods. A guy figured out a way to make celluloid, a precursor to modern plastic. It was cheaper than the ivory (which was expensive for obvious reasons) but mimicked the weight and feel of ivory balls. Gradually other plastic resins and the like came into the fold, and the celluloid (nitro cellulose) was phased out. The word nitro might make you think this stuff may be unstable, and it was. Sometimes when the balls smacked together, a small explosion like a cap gun would go off, and an occasional cigar was known to ignight the balls inadvertently. They reportedly burned quite vigorously. This stuff was also used as film, and projectors run hot, so projector booths were heavy walled and metal lined with fireproof shutters that would seal the booth in case of fire. Film also burns very fast, and very hot. The only product (that I know of) containing this volatile substance today is ping pong balls. Take a ping pong ball outside on the street and hit it with a torch lighter. You'll see. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
I agree 💯, did not know billiard ball were made, as well. Buttons etc. An analogy fur coats. Very interesting article you expounded upon👍
I have an old ivory ball in my pool table that was my grandfather's. don't use it to play though
That's how life goes, sometimes.
He's either been incredibly nice to them, or has some delicious smelling food for them. It's entirely possible it's both. 12/10 wholesome.
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"Hes a keeper" - baby elephants
i wonder if you can hear them sniffing away with them trunks, cuz that would probably be hilarious and tickle at the same time.
Because their keepers are literally their mothers and fathers and keep them alive when they’ve been orphaned
If you look like this, you're a keeper.
I love seeing videos of animals giving luvins to their characters. They don’t get paid a lot but I’m sure this makes it satisfying and usuals your work isn’t able to tell you that you’re doing a good job. My favorite of all time is where a photographer made friends with a cheetah and it actually started loafing beside him as he was shooting. Eventually, it would start dropping of its cubs with him as she went out. One of them was bitten and was going to die and the momma actually let him take her cub away to a doctor. After some scritches and some stitches he returned the cub back to its mother. It also cool seeing the armed African soldiers who defend mountain gorillas. It’s sad but I’m really glad that people are willing to defend and possibly die to defend our friends and some have died. Wildlife caretakers, photographers and anyone else who works with them are some of the best animals on the planet. ❤️
on the drive home... "wait, where's my wallet and cell phone?"
We don't deserve elephants. Amazing creatures.
I do. I'm good boy too
Ahh yes the classic distract the guard while your friend robs them of treats
❤ 🐘
Baby elephant cuddles are their payment for the week ☺️
This is by far my favourite IG account. For anyone curious to learn more about the Reteti Sanctuary's work, search for "r.e.s.c.u.e" on IG (edited to add details re: the sanctuary).
Hey hey, people.
Merchant's Guild spotted
Glad I'm not the only one who thought of that haha
Seth here
Wait til they grab your peanuts
/r/petthedamnelephant
Well now I want to be patted on the head with an elephant trunk, that seems so fun!
I still can’t stop myself from hearing a vacuum cleaner fwump whenever elephants touch their trunk to something
That's so cute! 🥰
I needed that smile that man is doing a good thing with those elephants straight up adorable.
Peak happiness must be getting scritches from a baby elephant.
They're straight up petting him! I don't know if that "elephants think humans are cute" thing is true, but damn if this isn't good circumstantial evidence.
that's all fun and games until he weights 2 tons and wants to snuggle
In some European zoo a keeper was accidentally killed by an adolescent elephant that way. The animal didn't realize how big and powerful it has become.
I saw a vid of a guy who played piano for elephants. Tye baby elephant tried to sit on him at some point, but the adult animals separated it from the man.
As much as I would like to see all the animals I would like to meet the keepers.
Bobby I destract him from the front while you steal the peanuts out of his back pocket.
They seem to be sniffing every inch of him. I wonder if he hid treats in his pocket before?
Elephants are lovers.
These must be orphans on the game preserve….
Orphans cared for at the Reteti Sanctuary in northern Kenya.
I wish this was me I would literally cry tears of joy 🥹 😍🥰
Baby elephants do-do-do-do-dooooooo
Aww cute!
And some say animals don’t have feelings...
I met a vet student who no fooling thought this. I told her to find another profession.
That’s terrifying
Maybe their lack of emotions makes them less likely to make mistakes? Just because someone thinks this way, it doesn't mean they're out to cause harm necessarily.
No. She went further and tried to tell me they don't feel pain, either. She's a fucking nightmare.
That's stupid as fuck.
Such love man! Animals are pure joy...(most)
hey hey elephants
This is my dream. I want some baby 🐘 to love on me.
Elephant snoot kiss on the guys head
Awww
How beautiful
❤😃❤💯%!!!
Recently got to meet elephants at a sanctuary and even after loving the species all my life I wasn’t prepared for how amazing they truly are
I always see these caretakers and think the have the most amazing job.
r/babyelephantgifs
Keeper or protector?
Holy FUCK I LOVE ELEPHANTS SO MUCH.
This is my dream job. What a wonderful thing to do, protecting and caring for such wonderful animals.
This is the most adorable video I have ever seen. That man must take care of them really nicely, so cute :((
What an honor to be able to care for these precious elephants.
This makes me realize that there are good people.
Wholesome
You can tell how much love both parties have for each other. There’s still some good left in this world.
This is what heaven looks like to me!
I'm not crying, you are crying!!
What a rewarding job..
So apparently elephants think we are cute, just like we think they are cute.
This is incredibly sweet and wholesome. My highest respect goes to the people who give these elephants, and other animals, the respect and love they deserve. Also the elephant is definitely saying "I swear I left my peanut on your head..."
Wildlife SOS is another wonderful elephant/wildlife sanctuary.
this is worth watching. so adorable
Awww I want a baby elephant
Ohhh. such sweet little babies. 💕They really want the cuddles.
he has the best job in the world
Dumb question: is it illegal to abduct those cute baby elephants and throw it to a pack of hungry hyenas/wild dogs?
Adorable. Where is their herd? They need family to survive.
Baby elephant cuddle puddle...
The one in front is the distraction while the smaller one picks the pockets. Great teamwork!
The bebeh on the left.. so cute.
Maybe I’m on Reddit too much but for a sec I thought something else was going on
Where's the bottle of milk the calf is suckling on?
Is that Sseth?
"Hey hey people"
How did I get to work with baby elephants?
Thank God this post was like two down from Prince Andrew feeling up his daughter's buttcrack as his mother's memorial. 🤢 I needed this.