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Watch two of Afгica’s Big 5 come face to face in an ancient гiʋal standoff! This captiʋating sighting was captuгed by 34-yeaг-old Joe Gгegoгy, while on a safaгi ʋacation. Elephant Shows Rhino Who’s Boss Joe tells LatestSightings.com the stoгy: “The гeseгʋe is situated in a ʋeгy гemote destination and can only be accessed by a […]
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In a crowded tourist park south of Chiang Mai in Thailand’s north, a baby elephant wanders around desolately surrounded by gawking crowds. It’s the dry season and, in the unshaded and arid arena, temperatures have soared to well over 35C. Deafening music is blasting out of speakers as one adult elephant is forced to play the […]
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There’s an elephant in the room. In a video clip shared Monday, a Kenyan TV journalist is adorably interrupted by a young elephant as he reports from Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, a nonprofit wildlife rehabilitation center for elephants and rhinos in Nairobi. The video shared on the trust’s Instagram page shows KBC Television reporter Alvin Patterson Kaunda […]
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This is the amazing moment a baby elephant was rescued after falling into a 30-feet-deep well in India. Footage taken in Jharkhand, eastern India, yesterday shows rescuers using excavators to dig a corridor to help the frightened calf escape after it fell into the well on Sunday night. Once he clambers out of the well […]
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They say a mother will do anything for her child even if it means putting herself in h.arm’s way. In this case, a fully-grown hippopotamus was flipped several feet into the air as she stood her ground against an a.ggressive elephant bull, giving her calf time to run to safety. Amazingly, she emerged relatively unscathed […]
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Sneaking out for a quick call of nature, one camper got the surprise of her life when she came across an elephant drinking out of one of the campsite lavatories in Botswana. Despite the mess left behind by humans, the tusked toilet drinker appeared unfazed by the interruption and continued taking a few long sips […]
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They say love knows no bounds, and that is definitely true of an abandoned elephant and giraffe who have formed an adorable bond after being rescued in Nairobi. Baby giraffe Kiko was brought to a wildlife trust in the Nairobi National Park after being found helpless and alone by Kenya Wildlife Service. At one-month-old, he […]
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The impressive moment a herd of elephants club together to save one of their young calves from hungry lionesses has been caught on camera in Botswana. Photographs taken by British photographer James Gifford show one lioness stalking the small elephant before leaping onto its back in Chobe National Park. But she wasn’t strong enough to […]
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A baby elephant’s misadventure turned into an elaborate rescue mission in a small Indian village after it fell into a well nearly 30 feet (9 meters) deep. The calf was among a herd of elephants to enter Nimatand village from the nearby forest, in Giridih district in the eastern state of Jharkhand, late on May […]
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A man was observing a cute little duck family cross the road together and was delighted by them — until he watched as, one by one, each tiny duckling accidentally fell down into a nearby drain. The mother duck could see her babies down in the drain but couldn’t get to them, and waited helplessly […]
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