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  • Опубликовано: 5 июн 2011
  • Dung-Cam captures fascinating footage of a new born calf and its baptism of fire as it faces the frustrations of a fully grown male. Visit www.bbcearth.com for all the latest animal news and wildlife videos and watch more high quality videos on the new BBC Earth RUclips channel
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  • @jaydensanchez9528
    @jaydensanchez9528 3 года назад +172

    A new baby is something to be excited about..... after two years in the womb, yeah I think I’d be damn excited to lol adorable

  • @DollSchmidt4429
    @DollSchmidt4429 2 года назад +109

    It's really amazing how protective the family are of the baby and how protective they are of each other

  • @amycastor2872
    @amycastor2872 3 года назад +228

    He was trying to mate with the mother who just gave birth. All the smells of a baby being born can get the male elephants excited. The aunties come in the protect the baby.

    • @JanusHoW
      @JanusHoW 8 месяцев назад +7

      It's more to protect the babies from predators. Only an entire pride of elephant specialist lions could even hope to bring a full-grown adult down, but an elephant calf is an easy meal that even a single lion could bring down. But only the most reckless predator would even try to take a calf under the watchful gaze of the mother, grandmother, aunts and maybe sisters.

    • @yamirathrachoo1377
      @yamirathrachoo1377 3 месяца назад +2

      3:48

    • @jaknap1
      @jaknap1 9 дней назад

      Just imagine the skill of a bull to be able to insert that big thing without being able to see. When I was young, I had occasional issues with insertion. Amazing skills of the bull.

  • @Epic11705
    @Epic11705 Год назад +41

    fun fact; the reason the baby looks so dirty is because the mother nudges and kicks dirt over his body to dry him up and cover his scent from predators

  • @sidd_not_vicious2609
    @sidd_not_vicious2609 3 месяца назад +4

    that baby and all them have been communicating for months in mommas belly..I love elephants so much.

  • @dritemolawzbks8574
    @dritemolawzbks8574 Год назад +16

    It was such a a beautiful scene before the frisky bull showed up.

  • @qt9716
    @qt9716 6 лет назад +175

    actually he was trying to mate with the mother. it's very common, he mistakes the smells of birth, look closely you will see it's the mom he's mounting. (the mom has blood and fluid down her leg, etc.) I've watched other videos where this is explained in detail. I always feel sorry for the mother, hard enough she just gave birth without a male trying to mount her right afterwards.

    • @debrahouston2884
      @debrahouston2884 3 года назад +27

      I was wondering if that were the case. Then, when narrator said an aunt adopted the calf, I KNEW the bull was trying to mount the mom.
      Poor baby was almost trampled to death bc of that MUSGUIDED BULL! 🙄🤬

    • @u59n
      @u59n 3 года назад +4

      @Lineage First not his baby

    • @kirstieb8025
      @kirstieb8025 Год назад +4

      damn bull

    • @sophiasaccone8121
      @sophiasaccone8121 Год назад +18

      @@kirstieb8025 Now I know why the females are so protective, of the mom and calf, right after birth.

    • @aurora0534
      @aurora0534 7 месяцев назад +1

      Lol men

  • @TaterChip91
    @TaterChip91 3 года назад +61

    That baby had to have been terrified as all hell lmao. Its been chilling in its own studio apartment for 2 years, then it gets evicted and suddenly surrounded by gigantic ass animals using their feet to make you stand up. With no regards to you experiencing gravity and weak legs right off the bat lol

    • @mel...s
      @mel...s 19 дней назад

      Great comment... reminds me to push through the discomfort because there are necessary for survival/success/growth

  • @Paraprax
    @Paraprax 11 лет назад +42

    "Some of them act badly because they've had a hard life, or have been mistreated... but, like people, Mrs. Simpson, some of them are just jerks."

    • @titaneden7825
      @titaneden7825 2 года назад

      i realize I'm pretty off topic but does anybody know of a good website to watch new tv shows online?

  • @ccharms60
    @ccharms60 Год назад +10

    Wow 😳 this was a great video I'm like over her trying to yell out to the female to circle him🤭 my heart was like nooo when he kicked him but how awesome was it to see the whole family of female 🐘🐘show up and protect him🥰

  • @kalel311superman9
    @kalel311superman9 4 года назад +18

    The elephants won't notice the poop that seems to be following them

  • @coopmuch56
    @coopmuch56 12 лет назад +50

    Holy shit elephants have evolved a 5th leg!

    • @sanguvarisu
      @sanguvarisu 2 года назад +2

      😂😂😂😂 lmao

    • @veuriam
      @veuriam Год назад +2

      A 6th!

    • @aurora0534
      @aurora0534 7 месяцев назад

      Just males' thing 🤣🤣🤣😂

  • @bonsaitreehouse5534
    @bonsaitreehouse5534 8 лет назад +36

    Four legs and two trunks

  • @emmahorton7
    @emmahorton7 12 лет назад +50

    I still love elephants, but this poor baby. I didn't know the bulls hung around the herd, someone must have been ready to mate? He's really obnoxious. The way he's batting that baby around. What a relief when he leaves! I thought the baby was going to get hurt or worse. It's amazing how he can be in the middle of all those legs and they don't step on him. Such a good mother and aunts!

    • @mrj.kottari8453
      @mrj.kottari8453 5 лет назад +19

      Phant bulls smell the females' heat pheromones from a looong distance. They don't hang around family groups, they visit only when one of the cows is "ready"..

    • @debrahouston2884
      @debrahouston2884 3 года назад +7

      It is indeed amazing that they don't ever step on the baby! 🥴💞🐘💞

  • @LeoJBatt
    @LeoJBatt 5 лет назад +34

    One of God's mist awesome creations!!! Love them so so much!!!

  • @agnessgnesanges7669
    @agnessgnesanges7669 Год назад +3

    Welcome to New world baby elephan god bless you darling be save with mom and family daling

  • @debrahouston2884
    @debrahouston2884 3 года назад +6

    Thank God for the CAVALRY!!!

  • @mochisam3540
    @mochisam3540 2 года назад +15

    2:40 omg that poor baby

    • @watchensee
      @watchensee Год назад

      What else to expect from a horny male?

  • @cherryboy4271
    @cherryboy4271 6 лет назад +6

    hey this is amazing seeing a baby elephant

    • @DollSchmidt4429
      @DollSchmidt4429 2 года назад +1

      It's amazing how protective the family are

  • @bapiyadebbarma
    @bapiyadebbarma 4 года назад +2

    When I saw all the elephant back kick video remind me of HBK.... But that calf calling Mom sound is so sweet

  • @ncl1p
    @ncl1p 13 лет назад +43

    Now imagine this with a drunk Uncle crashing a baby shower :p

  • @Ondrus21
    @Ondrus21 12 лет назад +37

    Beautiful animals!

    • @NoobPatel
      @NoobPatel 2 года назад +2

      Welcome to 2022!

  • @kaifriendship816
    @kaifriendship816 3 года назад +5

    I love these animals

  • @billsaunders1
    @billsaunders1 3 года назад +36

    I’d like to know more about what happened to the calf. These videos are always too short for me.

    • @JanusHoW
      @JanusHoW 8 месяцев назад +2

      Hopefully it is now a fully-grown adult, perhaps with children of its own.

    • @cameronhowe1110
      @cameronhowe1110 Месяц назад

      @@JanusHoWThis video is 12yrs old and bill elephant only become preferred mates after 30-ish.

  • @xxsdoriginalxx7783
    @xxsdoriginalxx7783 11 месяцев назад +2

    I love nature

  • @iwannaplaycs
    @iwannaplaycs 13 лет назад +10

    you mean his fifth leg, i think....

  • @xMikanNamix
    @xMikanNamix 13 лет назад +7

    Elephants are amazing O_O

  • @missbee7745
    @missbee7745 Год назад

    My Goodness, What A Dumpling!!! 💟🐘💟

  • @Drinapropriatetouch
    @Drinapropriatetouch 13 лет назад +33

    I had to laugh at his nonchalant backward kick @ about 2:39. Elephant calves are quite tough and as David says if the bull wanted to do real harm the scene would be a lot different.

    • @badgyrl310
      @badgyrl310 11 месяцев назад +3

      Interesting. None of it was funny to me. A full grown male elephant kicked a damn newborn. But to each his own.

  • @ArcadePerfect
    @ArcadePerfect 13 лет назад +2

    Phew!
    Some great cinematography.

  • @StopWhining491
    @StopWhining491 2 месяца назад

    Baby like, "put me back, put me back!"

  • @castafioreomg
    @castafioreomg 6 месяцев назад +2

    I like how the females also have tusks 😅

    • @user-ob4sq6fi3s
      @user-ob4sq6fi3s 2 месяца назад

      Yes. In African elephants, both male and female elephants have tusks. Unfortunately that's the reason no elephant is safe from poachers 😢

  • @kembangwengi3822
    @kembangwengi3822 7 лет назад +10

    Poor baby elefents

  • @devoidchess
    @devoidchess 13 лет назад

    Great sumbission, I have missed vids like this on this channel this year.

  • @RigobertosTacoShop
    @RigobertosTacoShop 15 дней назад

    damn momma just cant get a break lol

  • @donnaeckhardt6960
    @donnaeckhardt6960 3 года назад +3

    The baby is really screaming. Naughty papa

  • @marianneritavanvliet4554
    @marianneritavanvliet4554 3 года назад +2

    Wonderful

  • @ilhsfm
    @ilhsfm 13 лет назад +2

    so awesome

  • @j.c.ca.o.l7035
    @j.c.ca.o.l7035 2 года назад +3

    I knew the moment the bull appeared, the baby was going to get kicked. When a bull wants to mate, he will kick and throw the baby around if necessary.

    • @user-ob4sq6fi3s
      @user-ob4sq6fi3s Год назад +6

      Not all of them do it. It usually happens to younger, more excited and impatient males.
      Older, more restraint and experienced bulls know that one way to ear points with the herd is to not be jerks to the babies. That's why they usually ignore the calves for the most part

  • @HectorL360
    @HectorL360 12 лет назад +6

    Serious case of blue balls.

    • @debrahouston2884
      @debrahouston2884 3 года назад +3

      Can't say he doesn't deserve it.
      Think how she felt! She had just given birth + gets trying to "stick it to her!" OMG!!!...Now? U GOTTA HAVE IT NOW?!!! 🙄

    • @user-ob4sq6fi3s
      @user-ob4sq6fi3s Год назад

      ​@@debrahouston2884 it wasn't the mother. It was one of her sisters or cousins

    • @user-ob4sq6fi3s
      @user-ob4sq6fi3s Год назад

      ​@@debrahouston2884 and if she wasn't in season to conceive, the herd would have kicked him out. She doesn't have to cooperate and the matriarch has complete authority on whether a bull elephant can stick around with the herd and even mate, or she'll show him the door with her family's backing

  • @kingdom121989
    @kingdom121989 4 года назад +1

    Now this is too funny the baby how it whels. Lol

    • @debrahouston2884
      @debrahouston2884 3 года назад

      U'd squeal too IF u were side-swiped by a hard, gigantic tusk + then horse-kicked by an Elephant Bull in must! 🥺🤯

    • @kingdom121989
      @kingdom121989 3 года назад

      @@debrahouston2884 poor little tank tank

  • @MD-gj4hr
    @MD-gj4hr Год назад +1

    0:51 - 1:05 - 1:15 - 1:28 - 2:33

  • @front331
    @front331 Год назад +1

    God said the hell with these creatures, let me give them a second trunk.

  • @LionEntity
    @LionEntity 10 лет назад +6

    we are like this, in our own ways!

  • @julitakoz3941
    @julitakoz3941 8 лет назад

    Super elephants

  • @gabe-po9yi
    @gabe-po9yi 3 года назад +3

    Wow, talk about bad timing.

  • @mirellamarie7956
    @mirellamarie7956 3 года назад +2

    That was horrible ! Poor little baby !

  • @impbadminton
    @impbadminton 13 лет назад +2

    Nice I like the robot camera is so smart anyone know where to get one?

  • @KoricTheBrave
    @KoricTheBrave 13 лет назад +1

    @xyxean not sure that they did that but I think is that the elephants saw the moving dung pile and were like*wtf?* and investigated it. Yes I do know that elephants have poor eye sight but I am pretty sure they would notice a big pile of poop moving.

  • @cillitafresh92
    @cillitafresh92 12 лет назад +3

    poor baby elephant :(

  • @kelvikelv5322
    @kelvikelv5322 Год назад +1

    Amazing footage!

  • @oontgrad
    @oontgrad 13 лет назад +5

    @xXxSexyGoddessxXx the rock camera goes where the other ones can't. Like to get shots under the elephants and stuff. No cameraman was doing that.

  • @tedstriker6646
    @tedstriker6646 10 лет назад +4

    @Jean Bird You do realize that an elephant cow is only fertile for three days every five years?

    • @annehaight9963
      @annehaight9963 6 лет назад +7

      Um, no. Female elephants have an estrous cycle every year, and the fertility period within that cycle is 3-5 days.

    • @user-ob4sq6fi3s
      @user-ob4sq6fi3s Год назад +1

      Actually they're fertile 2-3 days every 4 months.
      They give birth to one calf every five years

  • @avikdey6818
    @avikdey6818 2 месяца назад

    Unity in diversity

  • @capucchan8
    @capucchan8 13 лет назад +1

    lol too funny

  • @n-silvabts9178
    @n-silvabts9178 Год назад +1

    They almost killed the baby.

  • @chrischow93
    @chrischow93 Год назад

    Wrong time to get you freak on bruh.

  • @spaceskipster4412
    @spaceskipster4412 3 года назад

    "Shit happens...!" 👊🏼 💩 😂

  • @xyxean
    @xyxean 13 лет назад +1

    How'd they place the camera on the new born?

  • @someawe
    @someawe 13 лет назад +2

    I thought that was his third leg...

  • @meysopheara2029
    @meysopheara2029 4 года назад +1

    🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤❤❤❤🐘💋💋😘😘

  • @MrZING1234
    @MrZING1234 12 лет назад

    lol

  • @henrysmith883
    @henrysmith883 4 месяца назад

    Wow he was so aggressive. Wasn’t he shy doing it in front of everyone? Not very romantic and he could have taken her for dinner first.

    • @user-ob4sq6fi3s
      @user-ob4sq6fi3s 2 месяца назад

      Elephants mate publicly. In fact, all the bellowing you were hearing during the mating was the family advertising the female's availability. An open invitation to any male might prove even fitter and strong enough to displace her present partner

  • @watchensee
    @watchensee Год назад +1

    Just like male deep-sea anglerfish, the male elephant is nothing more than a supply of sperm for the female/s.

    • @user-ob4sq6fi3s
      @user-ob4sq6fi3s Год назад +1

      Not quite. Granted, they do not partake in the care, learning and protection of calves but they play a vital role in the development of younger males.
      When bull elephants leave their family in their early teens, -usually between 10 and 14-, they seek out the company of other bulls. They're particularly drawn to older bulls who take the rookies under their wing and teach them new sources of food and water, survival skills and even battle techniques.
      That's why in areas where adult bull elephants have been exterminated due to hunting, the younger males are volatile, aggressive and uncontrollable

  • @kumaripadmebadulukochchiya7995
    @kumaripadmebadulukochchiya7995 4 года назад +2

    😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

  • @frepi
    @frepi 13 лет назад +5

    @oontgrad
    Not Rock cam, dung cam...An electronic turd...

  • @MrZING1234
    @MrZING1234 12 лет назад +1

    a verry thin 1:P

  • @boxsterman77
    @boxsterman77 Год назад

    Now that's a video that they won't be allowed to show in the Red States.

    • @teresaa96289
      @teresaa96289 8 месяцев назад

      What does that have to do with anything ? 😂

  • @HappyFaceKyle
    @HappyFaceKyle 11 лет назад +1

    omg elephant dongs

  • @truvelocity
    @truvelocity 13 лет назад +17

    This appears normal to me. He came to mate with a female in estrus, she happened to be there when the calf was born. He did not harm the calf, he pushed it gently and this resulted an unseemly act to the human observer.

  • @breadtoasted2269
    @breadtoasted2269 Месяц назад

    That male elephant pushing the baby around was so funny 😂

  • @ionelionel6470
    @ionelionel6470 2 года назад

    1:47

  • @sangeethsushmakonumuri8298
    @sangeethsushmakonumuri8298 3 года назад +10

    What else can you expect from a male?!?!

    • @SOCIAL_MEDIA_CREEPS
      @SOCIAL_MEDIA_CREEPS 2 года назад +4

      That's exactly what I was thinking 🙄

    • @VG_164
      @VG_164 Год назад +1

      Casual sexism in the comments lmao.

    • @user-ob4sq6fi3s
      @user-ob4sq6fi3s Год назад

      Keep your sexist comments to yourself. I am certain that you wouldn't have appreciated comments the other way around

    • @user-ob4sq6fi3s
      @user-ob4sq6fi3s Год назад

      ​@@SOCIAL_MEDIA_CREEPS I am certain that you wouldn't have appreciated comments the other way around. So keep your sexism to yourself

    • @user-ob4sq6fi3s
      @user-ob4sq6fi3s Год назад

      ​@@VG_164 Exactly. And I am willing to bet that they wouldn't have liked it if the comments were made the other way around

  • @inlonging
    @inlonging Год назад +1

    1:32 “these are highly intelligent and sensitive creatures”
    A bull literally is trying to r@ pe the mom who just gave birth. Yeah. Sensitive and intelligent all right 😡
    Humanlike, though, as he’s clearly thinking with the wrong head.

    • @berserker3414
      @berserker3414 9 месяцев назад

      Usually when sexual instincts kick in, empathy and rationality gets smashed to oblivion.
      We also do stupid sht just to get laid. The expression of ''post nut clarify'' exists for a reason.
      We also experience this and the bull was alerted by the smell of the hormones after birth. Also, it seems this only happens with inexperienced impatient bulls and not older ones. Remember, these creatures are individuals, of course you will find jerks

    • @inlonging
      @inlonging 8 месяцев назад

      @@berserker3414 its interesting how my sexual instinct has never involved the need to physically harm another individual *shrug* I suggest practicing self control, and of course we don't expect animals to do that, just as this one didn't.

    • @user-ob4sq6fi3s
      @user-ob4sq6fi3s 2 месяца назад

      This wasn't the mother. Another cow happened to be in oestrus the same time her relative gave birth.
      And you should also know that there's no rape in elephants. Bulls are not allowed to associate let alone mate with females unless the herd and especially the matriarch allow them to

  • @xyxean
    @xyxean 13 лет назад

    @PriestessOfBeauty :D

  • @carlosbambos
    @carlosbambos Год назад

    JRE!

  • @aurora0534
    @aurora0534 7 месяцев назад +1

    Omg men are so sick.😳

    • @user-ob4sq6fi3s
      @user-ob4sq6fi3s 6 месяцев назад

      not everyone. So keep those insulting comments to yourself...

    • @user-ob4sq6fi3s
      @user-ob4sq6fi3s 6 месяцев назад

      and if you must know, if the females didn't want him around, they would have made him leave. The fact that he got to stay, much less mate with the receptive cow, is because the females allowed him to. Not because he coerced them to accept him.
      It's nice to actually read stuff about animals instead of judging them based on human morality, isn't it?

  • @jeanbird1735
    @jeanbird1735 10 лет назад +26

    Typical male!!!! causes havoc, eveyone's attention must be on him so he kicks baby out of the way, get's what he wants and buggers off!!!!! Poor little soul,l it certainly was a baptism of fire.

    • @user-ob4sq6fi3s
      @user-ob4sq6fi3s 2 месяца назад

      "Typical male"
      How about you keep those insulting comments to yourself, bud? It's unfair and you know it

  • @MrNu287
    @MrNu287 13 лет назад

    ew

    • @mrj.kottari8453
      @mrj.kottari8453 5 лет назад +1

      Ew?
      This is how animals mate and reproduce. Male sticks his penis into a female, moves it there on and back and on for some time and leaves his reproductive cells in the female.
      This is how World has worked since first proto-mammal developed an uterus.
      This is how your parents did it 9mos before you were born. Except your mama was no elephant and your papa had no 5ft schlongy...
      #BIOLOGY

  • @rellik187redrum
    @rellik187redrum 12 лет назад +3

    I don't think elephants are so adorable anymore, that's sick.....

    • @watchensee
      @watchensee Год назад +3

      Well, just like us and everything else in this world they're not perfect.

    • @berserker3414
      @berserker3414 9 месяцев назад +1

      It's instinctive. The hormones are making him acting up, that's why the aunts are there.
      Some men have a pregnancy fetish so we aren't that different

    • @aurora0534
      @aurora0534 7 месяцев назад

      Only Adult male animals are like that. Others are adorable

    • @user-ob4sq6fi3s
      @user-ob4sq6fi3s 2 месяца назад

      ​@@aurora0534not all of them. Adult bull elephants are known for taking younger males under their wing when they leave their families and in areas where they get relocated, they put a stop to "delinquent behaviour" displayed by volatile, aggressive young bulls.
      Plus, bull elephants in their later years (late 40s, early 50s) are well received by the female herds and highly respected by almost everyone