🔥 Mother elephant makes quick work of hippos approaching her newborn baby in the watering hole 🔥1yr ⋅ holdenwook ⋅ r/NatureIsFuckingLit
🔥 Young elephant goes into four-wheel drive and fully sends it down the hill1yr ⋅ holdenwook ⋅ r/NatureIsFuckingLit
When a baby elephant falls down, it must perform the helicopter trunk maneuver to stand up again. This is a key evolutionary adaptation.1yr ⋅ holdenwook ⋅ r/babyelephantgifs
Rangers succeed in getting a lost baby elephant to chase their vehicle for 3 kilometers until reunited with its mother4yr ⋅ holdenwook ⋅ r/babyelephantgifs
Baby elephant inspects a baby buffalo and rips off some hair to have a taste1yr ⋅ holdenwook ⋅ r/babyelephantgifs
Mother elephant makes quick work of hippos approaching her newborn baby in the watering hole1yr ⋅ holdenwook ⋅ r/babyelephantgifs
Baby elephant inspects her caretaker at the Reteti Elephant Sanctuary1yr ⋅ holdenwook ⋅ r/babyelephantgifs
Baby elephant gracefully enters the swimming pool like an absolute professional1yr ⋅ holdenwook ⋅ r/babyelephantgifs
Young elephant goes into four-wheel drive and fully sends it down the hill1yr ⋅ holdenwook ⋅ r/babyelephantgifs
What do elephants dream of when they take a little elephant snooze...3yr ⋅ holdenwook ⋅ r/babyelephantgifs
Sometimes you drink from the well, and sometimes the well drinks you.7yr ⋅ holdenwook ⋅ r/babyelephantgifs
Orphans come in all shapes and sizes at the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust3yr ⋅ holdenwook ⋅ r/babyelephantgifs
The Sheldrick Wildlife Trust's Nairobi Nursery is a world-renowned orphanage for baby elephants, where the keepers sleep next to the youngest orphans at night to provide comfort and regular feedings.2yr ⋅ holdenwook ⋅ r/babyelephantgifs
🔥 Mother elephant lays down to encourage her newborn who cannot yet stand3yr ⋅ holdenwook ⋅ r/NatureIsFuckingLit
Young elephant goes into four-wheel drive and fully sends it down the hill1yr ⋅ holdenwook ⋅ r/MyPeopleNeedMe
No one gets more attention than a baby elephant who has just fallen down.7yr ⋅ holdenwook ⋅ r/babyelephantgifs
An abandoned premature elephant calf takes a helicopter ride to the one place where she stands a fighting chance: the Orphan's Project at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. Please consider donating or fostering an orphan this holiday season to help babies like this survive and return to the wild.6yr ⋅ holdenwook ⋅ r/babyelephantgifs
Aside from poaching, one of the most common reasons baby elephants are lost is because they fall in wells or other man-made enclosures. Here we see the wisdom of the herd at work as an older elephant prevents a curious baby from getting too close.3yr ⋅ holdenwook ⋅ r/babyelephantgifs
Baby elephants learn to use their trunks over time through trial and error2yr ⋅ holdenwook ⋅ r/babyelephantgifs
Pittsburgh's newest resident—a baby elephant born one month early at only 184 lbs7yr ⋅ holdenwook ⋅ r/babyelephantgifs
Babies come in all shapes and sizes at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust.7yr ⋅ holdenwook ⋅ r/babyelephantgifs
Happy Mother's Day /r/babyelephantgifs. Don't forget which one your mom is.7yr ⋅ holdenwook ⋅ r/babyelephantgifs
During the spring each year, a herd of elephants led by matriarch Wonky Tusk travel right through the lobby of Mfuwe Lodge to reach the mango trees beyond. The lodge was built on an ancient elephant path, and the elephants had no interest in changing course.7yr ⋅ holdenwook ⋅ r/babyelephantgifs
🔥 A group of rhinos is called a ‘crash’ — but a group of baby elephants might as well be called the same 🔥1yr ⋅ holdenwook ⋅ r/NatureIsFuckingLit
In the wild, baby elephants are never left alone. At the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, keepers stay with the babies at night to make up for this.7yr ⋅ holdenwook ⋅ r/babyelephantgifs
Like most elephants in Kenya, the orphans at the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust have a red-orange hue to their skin, which is the result of spending time in Kenya's famous red clay soil.3yr ⋅ holdenwook ⋅ r/babyelephantgifs
The only thing cuter than a baby elephant running is a baby elephant running and falling down5yr ⋅ holdenwook ⋅ r/babyelephantgifs
New baby at the Pittsburgh Zoo is starting to grow into her ears!7yr ⋅ holdenwook ⋅ r/babyelephantgifs
Elephants use their massive ears to control body temperature, as the web blood vessels near the skin release excess heat. When spread wide, the ears also serve as a defense mechanism by making the elephant look larger than it is.7yr ⋅ holdenwook ⋅ r/babyelephantgifs
Baby elephant sets trunk aside and goes full face-mode for the payoff9mo ⋅ holdenwook ⋅ r/babyelephantgifs
The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Instagram page is such a joyful place.7yr ⋅ holdenwook ⋅ r/babyelephantgifs
A Day in the Life at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. Thank you /r/babyelephantgifs for continuing to make organizations like this possible.7yr ⋅ holdenwook ⋅ r/babyelephantgifs
Baby elephants are like human toddlers. They are spatially unaware, possibly drunk, and apparently hellbent on killing themselves.7yr ⋅ holdenwook ⋅ r/babyelephantgifs
Did you know? Elephants have 2,000 genes dedicated to smell—more than twice the number of olfactory genes in domestic dogs and five times more than humans.7yr ⋅ holdenwook ⋅ r/babyelephantgifs
Just like the elephants they follow, cattle egrets live in a fixed social group—so when you see the same elephants again and again, you might be seeing the same cattle egrets as well.7yr ⋅ holdenwook ⋅ r/babyelephantgifs
When a baby elephant joins the herd, it is surrounded and touched – much like a human baby. Here we see Baby Wiva, the wild-born baby of a former Sheldrick Orphan, undergoing herd inspection.7yr ⋅ holdenwook ⋅ r/babyelephantgifs
Baby elephant bamboozles her friend by pulling water from a tree trunk. Friend strikes back.7yr ⋅ holdenwook ⋅ r/babyelephantgifs
Baby elephant receives hydrotherapy treatment to help heal her injured foot7yr ⋅ holdenwook ⋅ r/babyelephantgifs
