15 YouTube views, likes subscribers in 10 minutes. Free!
Get Free YouTube Subscribers, Views and Likes

What Makes Elephants so Amazing? Watch u0026 Learn About Their Incredible Bonds

Follow
HERD Elephant Orphanage South Africa

In this video, we start with Lundi and her adoptive daughter, albino orphan, Khanyisa, foraging together and spending time with Adine. Both elephants show their concern for and interest in Adine's wounds, also on her elbow, from her recent cycling accidents.

Adine shares some insight into the emotional side of elephants, their intelligence, sensitivity, and complex social bonds. As herd animals, they share many traits with us humans, as science has shown over time. We witness this constantly in the bush with the herd.

Be sure to turn on the CLOSED CAPTIONS for subtitles while Adine is speaking. Here is a transcript from her explanations as she watches Khanyisa grazing close by Lundi and Bubi.

You will see when the little ones are not strong enough with their trunks yet, they will go down on their front legs and bite off or chew the little branches. Like humans elephants also learn throughout the years how to do things. They're extremely clever, very intelligent and they can remember things that you will forget about it.

Khanyisa just picked up this little bone in the bush, must have been an impala that was killed. Owen says it's the impala lower jaw. She picked it up and threw it away.

Elephants can mourn, they are very in touch with their feelings. One of the reasons that we also rotate the carers is that they don't get attached to one or two carers, but rather there is a variety of people. So should you go off, even for me, during the hard times I also had to stand back a bit so that Khanyisa doesn't get too attached to me.

And you can see, if you go, they are a bit sad, and once you're back, they're so glad to see you. Just what I've experienced lately, being away for a longer period than before, Khanyisa was so glad to see me. We can also see that with the other carers that she deals with a lot. Herman, when Herman returns, you can see how glad she is.

You can see it in the communication. She will rumble to greet them. Their communication plays a huge role in the elephants' lives. Not only with rumbling, they also have different ways to communicate.

Elephants are very attached to their families. They have extremely strong family bonds and they will look out for each other. The female elephants, the cows, actually play a huge role in the family hierarchy. We have the Matriarch and she's the one who actually keeps the family together.

I think their family structure and bonds are much stronger than you have in human families. They watch out for each other, they will also fight. Some of them also don't get along. We for example have a Bubi and a Lundi, who don't get on extremely well, but they do get along. They have two sons and when there is a dispute between the two bulls, they will choose sides. Of course Bubi will choose Zindoga's side and Lundi will choose Mambo's side. So even when Mambo and Zindoga are extremely good friends, the females will remember what the boys did wrong.

posted by clurr7145s