EmotionsofAfrica

The video shows a baby elephant’s funny-looking struggling attempts to get back onto its feet in the slippery mud out the African wild. Watching baby elephants in the African wild is always an entertaining experience. In their first few years, baby elephants are still a little clumsy and can be awkward in their actions when it comes to learning and mastering the many challenges of life in the African bush. While on a safari in the Kruger National Park, we came across a herd of elephants busy taking a mud bath. It was scorching hot and elephants usually use the opportunity to cool down in the mud during the heat of the day. There was one particular baby elephant that looked like it was having the time of its life in the mud. When it was time to get out after playtime in the mud, it became really funny to watch this baby elephant trying to get back onto its feet again. The mud was clearly very slippery after all the elephants wallowed in it and the baby elephant just couldn’t find its feet initially. The baby elephant was slipping and sliding, falling down back into the mud several times. With its legs kicking in the air to build momentum, it was hilarious to watch the attempts of the baby elephant trying to get out of the mud. At one stage one of the other young elephants came to give it a nudge with its trunk and after a while the baby elephant finally managed to get out of the slippery mud. The baby elephant looked really happy to be out and right away sprinted straight to its mother which was already making her way back into the bush.