r/BeAmazed • u/Soloflow786 • 1d ago
Animal Two adult elephants rescue a calf after it falls into a pool at Seoul Zoo.
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u/Glycell 1d ago
I like the elephant in the background behind the gate, that is also clearly freaking out.
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u/luvdogs71 1d ago
Poor guy wanted to help.
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u/kucingkelelep 1d ago
This is why i love elephants
So much better than the rest of us
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u/TatorTotNachos 1d ago
It certainly shows their cognitive abilities and social intelligence. It doesn’t make them “better than us,” nor are we better than them, but it definitely demonstrates that they have intellectual thought. This has been shown in other ways also, of course (e.g. personalized names). Amazing creatures!
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u/IlllDeparture 21h ago
You could really tell how upset he was, running around in his enclosure.
I was worried about that little elephant calf as if he were my own son; I'm glad he made it out okay.
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u/Outrageous_Echo_8723 1d ago
Yes!!! They wanted to help 🥹🥹🥹🥰🥰🥰
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u/RegionPurple 1d ago
I love that they seem to be taking the baby over to the gate so the one who couldn't help can check it over and see for herself that it's OK 🥰
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u/justhereforsee 1d ago
Compassion sure but look how smart. The second elephant comes over to push the first to the ramp to get into the water. Knowing that was the best way to do it
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u/Ladyhappy 1d ago
I know he’s like stop freaking out and let’s get into action
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u/Impossible-Chicken33 20h ago
Humans on the other hand would grab their phone and start recording. Wish I lived with elephants!
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u/barbed_scar 19h ago
Oh nice observation! I didn't notice it until I read your comment. It seems like the first elephant is sliiightly younger than the second who comes running over.
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u/FunkU247 1d ago
One of natures most majestic creatures! Mysterious too... they can navigate to spots that their parent and grandparents used decades ago... despite the fact that they are 100's of KM away.
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u/Lower_Preference_112 1d ago
The one at the back is breaking my heart
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u/cruisefans 1d ago
Mine too. 😢😢 Her stress and worry is very real. She needs to be with them as elephants are so family oriented and devoted. ❤️
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u/Straight_Coconut_317 1d ago
Many years ago, a baby elephant drowned at the Rosemond Gifford zoo in Syracuse, New York in the elephants pool. All the elephants were terribly depressed.
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u/felinova 1d ago
It breaks my heart to see their distress. This year’s wildlife photographer of the year photo is even more devastating when you know how emotionally intelligent they are
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u/Sensitive_Dare_2740 1d ago
After reading your comment, I went to look at the wildlife photographer of the year photo. It was so sad, even more so reading the story behind it.. I am glad the baby was saved in this video.
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u/1_hotmama69 21h ago
Really? Awe man an we only have 360 blue right line whales in the world? From 22,000. What have we done? We killed an alligator Becuz he was big an scary. We think a lot of things are scary an our first choice is to kill it. We are the problem. Remember back in the day, if police had to shoot, it was a leg or the arm, you know called disarm, now we riddle with bullets. We shamefully deserve to be extinct too as we are the problem.
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u/memorialwoodshop 1d ago
I thought their trunk could be used as a snorkel. Did cartoons steer me wrong again?
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u/MeFolly 1d ago
Definitely can. But very young babies have poor control over their trunks.
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u/Lower_Preference_112 1d ago
That, and if the water is deeper than a fully extended teeny elephant trunk at full extension, it’s not a snorkel it’s a straw
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u/darth__anakin 1d ago
Elephant calves can't control their trunks so easily. At 8 months, they start learning how to use it for food and water, and after about a whole year, they start figuring out how to use it to grasp and lift things. But it can take them anywhere from 2 to 5 years to completely master muscle control in their trunks.
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u/Training_Yak_4655 1d ago
You could see the baby elephant using its trunk as a snorkel in the video. Actually it was having an instinctive go at swimming but the elders weren't trusting to luck.
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u/jjs3_1 1d ago
Notice the elephant in the background freaking out too?
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u/SabbyFox 1d ago
Yup. Of course there’s a lovely sub about baby elephants and you often see the whole group protecting and watching out for the babies. It takes a village! r/babyelephants 🐘
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u/Karl_Hungus_42069 1d ago
Theres a NatGeo show called Primal Combat and the first episode has lions vs elephants. The lions are trying to bring down a juvenile elephant and are probably gonna succeed... when the Herd comes rushing back to save the day. They're all running in a line and one of them even looks at the camera and starts trumpeting like "come on! Shits going down!" and then theres this one elephant off to the side kicking up a cloud of dust and passing them all by I practically jumped up like "AW SHIT GET EM!!" they saved the juvenile and then that elephant was punking the lions, giving them bluff charges. Its a good show if you have Hulu its on there
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u/FlanOk2476 1d ago
WHY does the zoo have a pool so deep the baby can drown in it?!? Terrible.
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u/KittoosFurrEver 1d ago
Same question. Can a kind, knowledgeable soul please help us understand without downvoting?
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u/Technical-Banana574 1d ago
The pool is not deep everywhere. As you could see in the video, it had a sort of incline in the pool to a shallower area that eventually leads out for ease of exit for the elephants, especially smaller members.
As to why it is deep in some spots, it is for the larger elephants to be able to submerge themselves and effectively cool off in the heat. Elephants are actually very good swimmers. This one was just young and was able to be assisted by older members much like a parent must watch their child at the pool.
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u/townsquare321 1d ago
2nd elephant that joins the rescue pushes mom to "get in the water". Fast thinker. Smart elephant.
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u/Under_Milkwood_1969 1d ago
Why the hell doesn’t the pool have gradually sloping sides to prevent this sort of thing happening?
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u/MasemJ 1d ago
Would take a lot more area to get to the depth that is desirable for adult elephant bath. Like if the deep part is about 20' across, the ramp area is adding 10' in that direction, and if you did that all over, that now is a 40' diameter pool, which is 4 times larger in area. Would reduce the rest of the ground space in the enclosure.
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u/Sea-Builder-8136 1d ago
There's a subreddit r/babyelephants. They are so darling, delightful, and playful.
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u/AsksAStupidQuestion 1d ago
Looks like the kiddo was using its snorkel alright so not a terribly dire situation fortunately.
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u/Johnny_Carcinogenic 1d ago
Before I saw that they had a ramp at the one end all I was thinking was what idiots the humans were that designed this pool
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u/KittenFace25 1d ago
There was zero hesitation, they both knew exactly what to do during every moment of the rescue. ❤️🥹 🐘
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u/CarpetBeautiful5382 1d ago
Clever thinking on the elephants on trying to get the calf to the shallow end instead of trying to get it on the edge of the pool
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u/jack2bip 1d ago
it's so sad how many elephants were killed for a few dollars. i can only hope it's gotten better..
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u/Roger-the-Dodger-67 1d ago
Which idjit made the pond with vertical walls? The sides are supposed to gently slope to ground level, so that any animal can simply walk out.
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u/Lucky_Respect_2311 1d ago
Growing up, my mom always said elephants were her favorite animal. In my little kid brain, I was convinced she only picked them because they were the biggest animals, and therefore her favorite had to be bigger than everyone else's. 😂 She never bothered to correct us or explain herself.
Over the years, after countless random conversations about animals, I slowly started to finally understand why she never felt the need to explain her unique love for elephants. She knew that one day, we'd grow up and discover for ourselves just how extraordinary these gentle big hearted giants really are. ❤️🐘
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u/mystical_mofo 1d ago
They are so intelligent… and you think the awful shit humans (some humans) have done to them
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u/TheFeralVulcan 23h ago
They all freaked out immediately - even behind the fence, they were all distressed by the baby's distress.
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u/Romanopapa 22h ago
Even the other elephant across the fence was pacing back and forth worried sick.
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u/Delicious_Band_7536 22h ago
Why do I have the feeling that the calf was pushed in the water by the adult elephant ?
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u/Protected-Spark-1351 18h ago
So yeah... I had to go to a zoo in Korea when teaching children there. The animals lead miserable lives in tiny concrete pens. I saw bears pacing from side to side. 😭
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u/cephalization 16h ago
Why would they make a water source that baby elephants can't walk out of?!?!!?!
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u/nunyobusinessfool 13h ago
Amazing how instantly the 2nd elephant jumped into action. Parental love has no boundaries
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u/Dangerous_Dingo_4121 1d ago
Really you needed this as a proof to comphrend their sophisticated intelligence ?
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u/joeconn4 1d ago
Knowing how kids are, I bet that baby elephant then started jumping in all the time, since they now learned they can walk out. And it's fun to jump into water.
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u/Strange-Marzipan9641 20h ago
We don't deserve animals.
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u/LastDon575 15h ago
YES WE DO. GOD CREATED THEM SO WE CAN ENJOY THEM. ITS NOT OUR FAULT THAT MONEY HUNGRY PEOPLE DOES BAD THANGS TO THE ANIMALS. THEY STEAL THEIR LAND WATER TREES ETC FOR THEIR PERSONAL GAIN. GOD WILL HANDLE IT N DUE TIME. WE JUST GOTTA CONTINUE TO PRAY
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