This is a clip of Samudra the Asian elephant having the time of his life dunking a new floating toy he received at the Oregon Zoo. Admittedly, that does look like a pretty fun floaty toy. I mean I wouldn’t jump off the diving board and try to land on
Chhouk the Asian elephant was found wandering the jungles of Cambodia in 2007 as a sickly orphan, missing his front left foot as the result of a poacher’s snare. He was taken in by the Wildlife Alliance, where he’s cared for and receives a new prosthetic about every six months
This is a video of Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) journalist Alvin Kaunda reporting about the orphaned elephants at the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust when a baby elephant named Kidani decides to interrupt Alvin’s report, trying to grab his ear and face with her trunk. Classic Kidani right there! God, I wish
This is a video of a bull elephant charging a jeep in Kabini, India while the driver reverses away from it with the skill of a surgeon. At least until he backs into a tree at the end, but thankfully by then the elephant has abandoned its pursuit. Still, that
Because elephants are far more kind and considerate that humans, this is a video of a pachyderm deftly picking up and returning a child’s shoe that was dropped inside its enclosure at a Chinese zoo. How about that! It’s given some grass for its trouble, which I’m sure was much
This is a video from Thai TikTok user thanakrit8181, who stopped to let a herd of elephants cross the road (look at all the babies!), when one of the elephants bringing up the rear stops to wave a thank you. Elephants: they’re more considerate than 99% of drivers on the
This is a video of the aftermath of Boonchuay the wild elephant smashing through a kitchen wall in search of salty snacks in the Thai village of Hua Hin, near his regular stomping grounds in Kaeng Krachan National Park. Apparently if wild elephants can’t find enough salty food in the
Being living is tiring, this is some drone footage of a herd of Asian elephants taking a well-deserved nap while trekking across China. The video was captured by a group monitoring the elephants with a drone hovering at over 1,100-feet to ensure the elephants were not disturbed. Man, those elephants