Elephants Rescue A Baby Elephant About To Be Carried Away By A Strong River Current

Elephants are very protective of their young. When a young member of an herd is in trouble, the ones closest to it will do anything to help it out. Tourist Sandy Gelderman while on a safari at the OI Pejeta Conservancy in the Laikipia district of Kenya saw this elephant trait first hand.

An herd of elephants was crossing the Ewaso Ng'iro river. Although muddy and the current is strong, the bigger elephants crossed the river with ease. The same cannot be said though with one baby elephant. The strong current easily swept it away. Fortunately, a young but much bigger elephant nearby quickly rescued it from being swept downstream. The mother elephant also came back from the banks of the river and helped push the baby elephant to dry ground.

Eye-Catching Print Ads Featuring A Bear And An Elephant

Fahrenheit DDB, an advertising agency based in Lima, Peru has created these eye-catching print ads promoting a drain opener called Dukto. The two ads are part of a campaign titled "Let them run free." One of the top reasons why drains get clogged is because of the accumulation of hair. If you've seen these Dukto ads, you will likely be thinking of them the next time you encounter a clogged drain. In other words, these ads work.

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Experiments Show That Elephants Are Way More Smarter Than We Think

When you ask a random person to name what he/she thinks are the smartest animals on the planet, you will usually get dogs, monkeys, or dolphins as a response. It's unlikely to hear someone say elephants. But as the following excerpt from the television documentary series Through The Wormhole on the Science channel shows, elephants deserve to join the ranks of dogs, dolphins and chimpanzees as among the smartest animals roaming this earth.

In this excerpt, elephants are made to look at themselves in a huge mirror. Other animals would normally ignore their reflections or simply think of these as other animals. Elephants, on the other hand, seem to be self-aware. They seem to recognize the reflections on the mirror as themselves. That's why they act in ways that are similar to the way humans look at themselves in the mirror.

Another experiment aims to find answers to the question "Do elephants think about what other elephants think?" When the experiment was done, it does seem to suggest that they do.

Another very interesting aspect of the experiments is when they are used to find out if elephants have the mental capacity to be spiritual or sort of come up with something akin to religion. Elephants are social animals. As the clip points out, there are anecdotes concerning elephants visiting the places where relatives have died and possibly reflecting on them. These are of course still very difficult to understand and to come up with conclusions will be very premature. But that's what science is all about. To seek knowledge on how these things work.

Elephant Crashes A Pool Party In Botswana...Good Thing It Didn't Steal The Beer

An elephant nonchalantly approached a pool party that was in full swing and noisily drank from the pool. This happened at the Elephant Sands, a bush lodge and campsite in Botswana in Africa. In the bush lodge, visitors can enjoy the natural wonders of Africa while getting up close with the giant elephants.

There's a can of beer lying just near the pool. Luckily, the elephant seemed to not harbor any interest upon it. What's amazing about this video is the peaceful conduct of the animal. Elephants can be dangerous and are known to attack people. But this one seemed to feel very comfortable among people. It must be because of the fact that it lives in a bush lodge where humans are a daily sight.