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tblue37

(68,449 posts) Mon Feb 8, 2021, 05:29 PM Feb 2021

Elephants celebrate birth of newest baby!

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Elephants celebrate birth of newest baby! (Original Post) tblue37 Feb 2021 OP

Amazing to see all the elephants come to see the new one... you can hardly see it after a while, lol secondwind Feb 2021 #1

It takes a village. CatMor Feb 2021 #2

Celebrating? Or Guarding? GopherGal Feb 2021 #3

Definitely protecting (also kicking dust to cover the smell of the birth). But I bet they tblue37 Feb 2021 #4

Omagarsh wow! Jetheels Feb 2021 #5

I wonder if the tusks have been reduced on this herd to keep poachers applegrove Feb 2021 #6

I saw a documentary a few years ago that mentioned tuskless elephants. Arkansas Granny Feb 2021 #7

Wow. Good for mother nature. applegrove Feb 2021 #8

secondwind

(16,903 posts)

1. Amazing to see all the elephants come to see the new one... you can hardly see it after a while, lol

Reply to tblue37 (Original post)

Mon Feb 8, 2021, 05:34 PM

Feb 2021

CatMor

(6,212 posts)

2. It takes a village.

Reply to tblue37 (Original post)

Mon Feb 8, 2021, 05:36 PM

Feb 2021

GopherGal

(2,952 posts)

3. Celebrating? Or Guarding?

Reply to tblue37 (Original post)

Mon Feb 8, 2021, 05:39 PM

Feb 2021

Or do the noises serve to give notice to any nearby predators that the newborn will NOT be a quick easy snack (if grandma and the aunts have anything to say about it -- and they will!)

tblue37

(68,449 posts)

4. Definitely protecting (also kicking dust to cover the smell of the birth). But I bet they

Reply to GopherGal (Reply #3)

Mon Feb 8, 2021, 05:42 PM

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are also celebrating. Elephants clearly love their babies.

Jetheels

(991 posts)

5. Omagarsh wow!

Reply to tblue37 (Original post)

Mon Feb 8, 2021, 06:33 PM

Feb 2021

applegrove

(133,101 posts)

6. I wonder if the tusks have been reduced on this herd to keep poachers

Reply to tblue37 (Original post)

Mon Feb 8, 2021, 07:59 PM

Feb 2021

Away. Heartfelt trumpeting. I hope they are all safe.

Arkansas Granny

(32,265 posts)

7. I saw a documentary a few years ago that mentioned tuskless elephants.

Reply to applegrove (Reply #6)

Mon Feb 8, 2021, 08:46 PM

Feb 2021

One theory was that so many had been killed for their tusks that the tuskless gene was becoming more prevalent in many herds.

applegrove

(133,101 posts)

8. Wow. Good for mother nature.

Reply to Arkansas Granny (Reply #7)

Mon Feb 8, 2021, 08:50 PM

Feb 2021

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