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BABY ELEPHANT FALL!

      Baby elephants are notorious for getting into predicaments that their larger sized group members don't have a problem with. Here is one of those extraordinary scenes captured on camera by Brit Mark Bowler in the Addo Elephant National Park, in South Africa.
      He said: 'There were about 50 in the herd. They were running as they crossed the road and went up the bank, which was about waist high. The babies struggled to get over and the mothers started to get a bit concerned - there was lots of deep rumbling and ear flapping going on. I admit I was scared but there was nowhere I could go - my car was surrounded."
Shangrala's Baby Elephant Fall
      "There was this very small elephant, which needed help getting up the bank." The little calf reached for its mother as she wraps her trunk around it to carry it up the bank when it struggled to scale the tricky obstacle.

Shangrala's Baby Elephant Fall
      Even with its mothers extra help, the little elephant calf loses its footing and slides down the bank.



Shangrala's Baby Elephant Fall
      The calf is falling with its legs in the air helplessly looking up towards its mother. "The mother tried pulling the calf up from the top but she then dropped it. At one point the baby was with all four legs in the air, mouth open and trunk flailing."

Shangrala's Baby Elephant Fall
      Mr Bowler, a conservation biologist from Edinburgh, Scotland, was just two feet away when the calf fell. "The baby was certainly struggling but after it fell the mood seemed to change and it looked sulky rather than excited."

Shangrala's Baby Elephant Fall
      "After this the mother became more concerned with comforting her offspring than the rush to get it up the bank."

Shangrala's Baby Elephant Fall
      "She eventually changed her tactics and led the baby to a less steep route. He added: "It all happened very fast and the adrenaline was pumping. I have never seen anything quite the same before or since. I can almost feel the deep rumble and my own heart rate going up even when I look at the images now."



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