Elephant Mom Tries To Teach Her Clumsy Calf How To Go Down Slope, Calf Fails Hilariously
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We admire elephants partly because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence.
Baby elephants in the developing stage are very curious about the world and always entertaining to watch as they interact with nature, people, and other elephants.
For the first few days of their lives, their eyesight, coordination, and balance are a little off and they are primarily dependent on their mothers for everything. In turn, an elephant mom is very nurturing and protective of her offspring, especially in the earliest stages of their lives. Elephant moms are there for their babies every step of the way and teach them to navigate through tricky situations. Demonstrating the same, an old video of a mother elephant teaching her baby how to slide down a slope has resurfaced on Twitter and has garnered a whopping 12 million views.
Watch the video here:
Mother: This is the last time I show you how to go down..
Son: pic.twitter.com/KJFaqJXq8M
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) August 17, 2022
In the video uploaded by Twitter user @buitengebiden, the mother elephant can be seen slowly walking down the slope, dragging her two rear feet behind her after stabilizing her front two legs on the ground as she carefully navigates the decline without falling.
As the baby elephant’s turn comes next, he initially mimics the technique demonstrated by the mother shortly before diving headfirst and clumsily tumbling down the slope. the moment is too funny to miss.
Apart from 12 million views, the video has received more than 27,000 likes, and more than 3330 retweets.
Twitter users were amused by the baby elephant’s attempt at following in his mother’s footsteps.
“That was a 10… stuck the landing. His legs are not as long as hers. I thought it was brilliant,” one user commented.
“He did it HIS way,” another user wrote.
