The Elephants that came to dinner 🐘🐘🐘 | Mfuwe Lodge, Zambia
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- Prepare to be captivated by a truly extraordinary wildlife phenomenon at the renowned five-star Mfuwe Lodge in Zambia. This intriguing video shows a remarkable occurrence that has both puzzled wildlife experts and enchanted tourists. A remarkable elephant family, led by a wise matriarch known as Wonky Tusk, has taken over the lodge's lobby area. Surprisingly, these elephants gracefully climb the lodge's stairs and peacefully wander past reception without causing any disturbance. This paradox begs the question: Why are these elephants displaying such gentle behaviour in this unusual setting?
Embark on a fascinating journey with wildlife cameraman Nathan Pilcher as he sets out to unravel this captivating mystery. Through his lens, he explores the depths of this peculiar behaviour, unveiling astonishing insights that may challenge our perceptions of elephant intelligence.
Join us as we delve into the profound connection between humans and elephants, and discover these majestic creatures' incredible complexity and intellect. Prepare to be amazed as the secrets behind this enchanting behaviour are unveiled.
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The mama elephant said to the receptionist" book my family &I will be back same time next year & plant more mangos, we eat a lot"
Hahaha
I think they were jackal berries, not mangoes (too small)
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@@juliansydney9819 There are some mango varieties that are that small.
@Victor Joseph thanks Victor!
So sad that these beautiful animals are just exploited for their tusks, nobody needs an elephant tusk except an elephant
Right.
Yeah :(
No zoos kidnapped them from Africa
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@@Ariel692769 ฟ
extremely rare footage of a well behaved child in a hotel lobby
I appreciate the fact that the staffs and owner of the lodge understand how special this is and allow them to casually do what they had been doing for years. This lodge is sitting on gold mine. No other lodge have this.
Imagine trying to stop a family of full grown elephants with anything short of weaponry.
It ain't gonna happen
The lodge was built on the trail( highway) of these elephants. The herd of elephants never changes its path! It was a heck of a problem when they were building it. It isn’t the other way around. The elephants have chosen to live with it since they’ve never been disturbed. Usually they trample on anything on their way when they are agitated! The lodge was built for commercial purposes.
We are lucky to enjoy these clips to learn how Africans, Zambians in particular peacefully live alongside with their wild animals.
@@mosesm6040 love how you typoed “wide”, ‘cause you got that right, anyway! Also, “wild”!😆
@@ColRusSer Thanks for the correction. The words are picked up while writing with my iPhone due to autocorrect. I needed to read over again after writing( something that I seldom do).
This never happens at home where I am glued to my laptop but I can’t afford such luxury at work and again during break period to kill some time. Again thanks!
I don't know what it is. Just seeing elephants puts a smile on my face
Same🤗🤗🤗
Me to 🐘
They are very polite guests. Even the baby is extremely well-behaved.
This takes "elephant in the room" to a whole new meaning. LOL
Dracorider 19 A..hAhA
Yeah...wonder what elephant(S) in a room mean??? 😳
Underrated
He is not stealing..
Just collecting TOLL..
Haaaahhha good one 👍😊
Clerk: So Mr. & Mrs. Elephant, do you have any luggage to check in?
Elephants: Yes. Just our trunks.
Hah
Love it. Thanks for the laugh. All the best from Canada.
This needs more attention
lollllllllllllll🤣🤣🤣🤣
"Guys, I really think we should address the Elephant in the room."
"Which one?"
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😂
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Absolutely magnificent and I take my hat off the the lodge owners for allowing them to come through the property each year. Something so VERY SPECIAL and you have NO IDEA what incredible trust you have built with this herd. Amazing and THANK YOU for giving them the opportunity to be able to freely visit their special place. We have encroached on THEIR territory so sharing it like this is just wonderful. A time when humanity is also at its best. Xxx
+Gina Boxley yes and the ones that come after will inherit this trust of man ..HOpeully this will last and they wont be chased away by any new owners or new developments in future...after all god made those trees and land for them too
Jessie we so need to build this trust. Man had slaughter them for generations. We have to learn from these gentle giants that we can live in harmony xxx
+Gina Boxley ,
You are absolutely correct. The resort should be congratulated for their vision to maintain the wide access, the elephant corridor that connects direct to the mango grove. I hope it was no accident. If the access was narrow, it is difficult to predict what would happen. The guests should exercise caution and preferably be less seen, Standing in the open to take photos is extremely foolish. The elephant is unaware of his or her strength and the power it processes, they are wild, it is foolish to think they are tame. The animals should not be pushed to make sudden decisions. The resort should publish basic rules that would control the behavior of the guests and strictly ensure that the rules are observed if not it could threaten the resort. The elephants are strong enough to pull the resort down in a morning. Ashley de Vos (Sri Lanka)
Agreed Ashley....yes they are wild animals and their power is gigantic. But they generally are peaceful creatures and should have their space. Xxx
+Gina Boxley , yes, indeed..elephants follow the same migratory routes all of their lives...humans encroach and suddenly the elephants are called rogue. NO such thing. Hats off to this hotel. The plight of elephants is very sad as we read every day about poachers.
Based on what I saw in this video, the elephants have made it clear that "If you leave us alone, we will leave you alone." This willingness on both sides to go along with this concept is why it has worked out for both sides. The elephants get continued access to the mango trees, and guests of the place get amazing pix and videos, along with the thrill of being close to wild elephants. Thanks for the post. I really liked it. I am disabled now, and have to do all of my travelling from my armchair. This was a great trip!🤗😄
People still come and enjoy this beautiful video after so many years
@John Bob I agreee! They so cute xoxoxoxox >_
Elephants are also highly intelligent, emotional and compassionate creatures. And it's true, they never forget. Do an elephant a kindness, and you have a friend for life. Harm an elephant, and they will remember that, too! However, they're also forgiving. In places where elephants have been harmed for poaching or due to war, they will, over time, forgive the humans and not act aggressively! Better than many humans!💕🐘🐘🐘💕
Baby decided to take a nap in the lobby...adorable.💕
All of you here, please note that there is something called elephant corridor, it is a path where elephant will always pass, this resort is build purposedly on this path to attract tourism and make money. Usually this is not allowed in many countries to protect the existence of the animal, however in some countries coruption is higher than the sky...
Ur making out as if they done a crime I mean Yh it ent natural but. If that it’s good it’s their offers them a safe passage and protects them from poachers and predators while they are there
ohh.. nooo. that's awful, i never knew that!, thankyou for informing us.
@@exotikz7905 Nature have already provided them a jungle with privacy which elephants needs. Human cannot offer them anything. When it comes to poachers, once the elephants come out of the resort they still have this danger other than if rangers will do their job properly which in these countries they are corupted, take money from poachers and allow them free passage. Now the elephant have no where to be, note also that an elephant at some stage of their life goes through a stage when they are very hyper can attack anything and if they pass through this resort while being hyper the hotel guard kill them.
@@naiguennarrainen1126 Yh but as humans we can respect that privacy n not kill them for Ivory
I was wondering why they would build the ceilings to be just high enough to fit a full grown elephant.. thought it was a coincidence but this makes more sense.
Animals are good souls, and elephants too me seem like a sacred species by which I mean they are proof of something beyond our comprehension: they think, remember, and our just good creatures. Save the Elephants!
Amazing!!! I heard the commentator say that the Elephants have encroached on human property, but isn’t it the other way around? The Elephants just continue their routine
Yeahhh I heard that too..I'm like WHAT
I give credit to whoever constructed the floors at that Lodge because no one could have expected that much pressure per square foot inside of some place
There's probably no basement.
I believe they could, and did, expect it. I believe it was done deliberately. What a tourist attraction1
"The elephants had no intention of changing course"
I mean why should they?
@isa t1000 and nothing to belongs to the animals...
We're supposed to share everything...
Of course they shouldn't but we live on this planet as well and it is not our choice to be around too. We have our own way of living and we don't have thick skins so we mostly die without building houses and etc. It may be not very good to build it on the elephant path but if you look in another way - predators won't reach those elephants there. The things are not always black and white
@@cryrustmusic this is also true.
The baby even got a nap rite there just like human babys they also take a nap Everywhere and anywhere.😃
The elephants aren't trespassing if the villa was built on their territory
Human arrogance in a nutshell
The baby elephant 😍 what a little meatball! So cute taking a nap
That resort must be pricey to stay at considering you get to see elephants roaming around inside the reception hall lol
“Encroached on a human area.” Nah. That tree is older than the hotel. They were going there first.
Love 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 the way they just stroll 🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘 into the lobby like they're looking for a suite of rooms for the family holiday. Priceless encounter. Thanks for sharing. 🌹🌹🌹
i really like that it was built so the animals can wonder through and feed, it feels nice that its just open like that, and them co-existing with nature in a more healthy way
They have every right to walk through, they've been doing it long before man was there!
Cool off it's just a few words
@@Pearg0ld stop telling everyone to cool off, they all have an extremely valid point
I like that they didn't try to deter them.
stephen wedderburn ok, but we took the area. Just like any other animals, we areas away from other animals. Unlike them, we let them in our land.
Well in nature animals take over territory. Animals fight for it. If you want it you take it. survival of the fittest. That’s how nature works.
We were very fortunate to be there when the elephants decided to walk through the lodge to get to their mango trees. It gave us such a joyful and in awe feeling that we will never forget. Yes, the baby elephants are the cutest creatures on earth!
What a blessed awe inspiring humbling experience !
This is truely amazing. The humans have respect for the animals and so the animals over time have respect for the humans. Truely amazing!
The elephants are so gentle with everything.
They could probably tear the building down without much bother.
But they walk around with such care and attention.
This takes the phrase “ lets address the elephant in the room” to a whole new level
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So blessed to see these kind mammals not harmed
when we interfere with nature; we should leave enough space to allow harmony and adaptation.
hats off to the owner of the facility.
+Abdullah Alsalhi
Well said.
+Abdullah Alsalhi Yeah, its really cute until they kill some one.
+Neil Huff so kill them?! living won't happen until everybody lives respecting all living things equally.
+Abdullah Alsalhi I'm always saying what you have stated - we have enough built structures per say stop tearing down our earth and let life live the way it was meant to be and protect these beautiful animals and their habitats in every region of this vast world of ours
Abdullah Alsalhi
That little baby elephant playing with the car's bumber was absolutely adorable.
I think it's wonderful that the people who built the lodge as opposed to trying to chase them off, like most humans do, they respected the elephant's enough to allow them to pass through to their feeding grounds. Kudos to them for the respect.
Mfuwe is my village. So beautiful. And you gave them names
It's the path the matriarchs mother took, and her grandmother, passed down from generations. An instinct that cant be ignored
@Smileyrie James you dont understand, elephants migrate based mostly on memory of where their mother took them for steady supply of food and water. Without that memory, it would mean death to the entire herd. Elephants truly are amazing animals.
“Mommy, what are those weird skinny things watching us?”
“Oh- those? Those are the apes sweetie, don’t mind them, a lot of them don’t hurt anybody and just watch the other animals. They’re weird, but alright.”
“Can I play with them?”
“Y’know, I don’t know. Try it, if you got trouble call us.”
The only mistake in the commentary when he stated the elephants came into the human territory. We encroached on theirs.
+ROBIN SHANE Not exactly. They travel through there each year, but many animals establish territories and none of them give a flip about what other animals happen to have claimed the area. What he was getting at was they're intelligent enough to realize they're coming into an established "nest" or habitat, and being of a peaceful temperament this family decided that rather than attack the people who built a habitat around the mangoes they'd just make it clear that they didn't care either way; as long as these strangers don't bother them or interfere with their lunch, they wouldn't interfere with their new neighbors' choice of home.
Thank you for your input.
ROBIN SHANE agreed!
Again, this is Africa. Humans and elephants have been sharing these lands for tens of thousands of years.
Such magnificent creatures, we must do everything to protect them
Good feeling watching this in our own Country Zambia....Amazing.
They should lay out a red carpet for these majestic creatures!
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There might be clean-up issues if they did that.
Elephants: Oi mate, table for 14 please. With one baby chair
It's an Elephant's world, we're just living in it.
Dang right
Photographer: "this could be really dangerous!"... then takes a picture with flash.
Haha, right?!
do you have any proof of that?
@@sludge4125 proof of what? the flash? 3:01
@@alfredoprime5495 👍👍👍
I just love the baby taking a nap.
Babies can sleep anywhere! Great mommy's, they allowed it in the lodge!
The elephant is so smart and so powerful yet it can be so gentle and so caring it is one of God's most amazing animals he gave mankind to share the world with.
Elephants were here many years before humans ever existed so it’s more he gave mankind to elephants lol
i have seen children in hotels doing more damage t han these elephants ever did!
+jessie james Have you seen mythbusters bull in a china shop episode? The bulls didn't break a thing.
jessie james what are you talking about the elephants did no damage to it at all
. I didnt say they did.mayb e i didnt express myself in writing well.
I agree totally with you about that.....and its not only kids .Enough said.......
It's like that joke: "where does an elephant sit? wherever it wants to" only it's not a joke, at all.
NEVER EVER USE FLASH WHILE TAKING PIC OF WILD ANIMALS THEY TEND TO BE PISSED
same with many humans
YOU BETTER CALL THEM UP AND INFORM THEM OF YOUR EXPERTISE IN THE MATTER BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE!
Why do I feel like you are speaking from an experience
@@futureshock382 good point on a much more dangerous animal!
Raj, besides opinion, conjecture, and speculation, do you have any proof of that?
I didn’t think so.
Oh, in regard to shouting; STFU.
Hopefully, there will still be wild elephants around to do this 50 years from now.
We need more wildlife corridors, places for animals to cross from one habitat to the next without coming into conflict with people. This example is both good and bad. On the one hand, it gives us an opportunity to further study these magnificent creatures. On the other hand, habituating animals to people can lead to more conflict.
People also need to reuse more of our own spaces. Instead of sprawling outward, reuse empty buildings and build more densely inward.
I'm worried about poachers..
They love when elephants don't fear humans, easier to shoot
while inside the lodge grounds the elephants are well protected as it's walled off hence why the elephants go through the "archway", also the further away from the lodge the elephants get the more protective they get.. it's only at the lodge they seem to let their hair down and relax
@@duomaxwell2293 Did you watch the video?
This is one of those situations that you know only works so long as no idiot comes in and spoils the delicate arrangement. Presumably these elephants have never had any bad experiences with humans in this part of Zambia, and therefore have built a trust with them: much like the Deer in Nara park. It's one of those situations that seems too good to be ture, BUT so far it has been here. Pray nobody ruins it
I come from Zambia. We had mango tree in our garden too growing up (but no elephants). Although mangos grow well in the climate here, mangos are not "ancestral" food for these animals. Its not native to the region. Mangos are fruit from India transplanted to Africa relatively recently by human horticulturalists. This is a human cultivated garden the elephants are raiding. Mango trees wouldn't have been there before the lodge. It's a rare treat. They don't find such fruit in the wild.
So you can discount the "old elephant trail" tale. The Luawanga valley is replete with elephants, so you can say everything is a trail. But this is just a good ol' mango-raiding party. This particular group simply figured out mangos could be found in the lodge garden and when they're in season. Definite trespassing.
It worked for the hotel too. Mangoes for tourists! Fair trade I would say!
In India where Asian elephants live, yes it is eating wild mangoes but I agree it’s not ancestral to African elephants to eat mangoes. But African elephants are only tasked to find any vegetable fruit food they can see and find.
I disagree that the elephants are trespassing.
That sleepy baby is so sweet! ♥️🐘
2:40 Looks normal to me.
The resort screwed up the reservation and a kid falls asleep in the lobby while his parents are waiting for the correction.
Haha👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
may both the elephants and the lodge have protection, and good health. hoping to see more videos or find more pictures on this amazing place.
I was there in Zambia 2019/2020. I had so many incredible experiences. It's a beautiful place to visit.
All the Lodge teams and National Park workers out there are fantastic. 🐘
❤♥️🎊🎉
See you guys again in 4 years when this gets recommend again.
Cya
True
Adios
That is beautiful how tons of heavy elephants walk through the hotel and dont break or trash anything yet humans go into their lands and destroy everything so easy...
I think that is so sweet because they don't have to pay a thing. The check-in and check-out to eat I love watching the elephants
Not so sweet. I'm sorry but its the same as white christians enroaching african land meant for african ppl n pushing them to poverty and those locals can do nothing other than watching, like these poor elephants.
That hotel lodge has been designed to withstand the size and weight of the elephants... the height, the paving ... it’s deliberate
This kind of things are the ones that makes us realize that, if we want to, we can coexist with animals and nature.
If we don't coexist, then we are finished.
@@sam7748 🤣
Not all though...it was meant to be for humans to take care of them...
@@yam153 Take care of, Not take advantage of!
0:28 imaging checking in at the hotel and have to wait in line behind an elephant 😂
This is better than any festival
Ain't nothing stopping 'em elephants from getting their mangoes.
I stayed at this lodge 30 years ago. It was nice. I can see why elephants return for yearly vacations.
They were like,
“Sure you can build your lodge here, but we get to use the main hall when we take the family fruit picking.”
People continue to astound me, why would the Elephants change course when the buildings are big enough to fit through? It's to much hard work.
You have to love this! What a privilege it is to have elephants trusting people enough to allow a tiny baby to play with your vehicle's bumper. It would be wonderful to be able to witness this in person.
I love seeing baby elephants figuring out their trunks. It's pretty much the same a a human baby figuring out their hands
Way to address the elephant in the room.
Wish we could always live in such beautiful harmony with wildlife.
Looks like they knew elephants would pass through building when they built the lodge
Humans are deadly. Elephants are magnificent.
Elephants never forget all the horrible stuff humans did to them, but they’ll always forgive.
I agree with you 100%. Alexei. Well said!
You must not know much about elephants
@@olp3850 I agree. The others are fkn idiots.
Elephants can and will kill you if they feel like it.
waiter: “how can I help you?”
elephants: “ four buckets of peanuts please, and extra two for my daughter”
Elephants considered ONE of the most powerful animals in Africa. What a ridiculous and careless statement. It is undoubtedly, unquestioningly the most powerful land mammal in the world.
Literally, the elephant in the room
That's so Awesome.... They even bring a trunk when they stay at the place...LOL... That baby is so cute.
I'm sorry, "the elephants had encroached on a human area"??? Ummm, no, the humans encroached on an elephant area. You said yourself that the lodge had been built on an ancient elephant trail.
Thomas Daily I would shoot them because they at my home
You know humans were once animals too, and technically still are right? This planet belongs to humans, just as much as it belongs to elephants. So if humans have settled there, and elephants walk into that area, they are encroaching.
@@fierywolverine5044 the elephants were there first tho, neither are enroaching realistically, the elephants are happy for the humans to be there and vica versa
@@dwolf6584 I agree
@@dwolf6584 Yes you’re correct Elephants and Primates including humans are the only Two beings of moral conscious thoughts and social abilities
What a pity they built the resort on the Elephants' feeding grounds. They knew the Elephants were feeding there before they build the lodge.
I'm sure it was an accident, best the smart elephants found there way around and the hotel becomes popular for their elephant sightings.
The baby is soooooo cute!
Great story but it still doesn't change the fact they were wankers for building that place there in the first place.
Money, money, money.
The food served there is so delicious it attracts herds.
Wow, they're majestic creatures, beautiful!
2:20 "they had encroached on a human area" sorry wot? at the start of the video it clearly states that it was built over an ancient elephant path
How cute is Wellington! So curious, tired & cute just as a newborn in this world should be 😍❤️🐘
I'm truly amazed by these elephants'. They show an immense amount of trust to allow humans near this baby. In this case the trust was deserved. They knew this was a safe place because elephants never forget anything. That being said, please don't say they encroached on the humans' because the humans put this building upon the elephants' ancient path.
Right!!! And they did their business and left. And the people were smart enough to realize these were not pet elephants but wild animals looking for food. You observe from a safe place and than God you got the opportunity of a lifetime because the elephants remember the path to their favorite mango trees and are ready for a treat.
You need park rangers to keep elephants away from poachers Becuz once an elephant gets a lot of passiveness from humans. Elephants think that all humans are peaceful without knowing they will be killed by poachers.
They didn’t realize the elephants wouldn’t change their path. And now I bet people pay out the nose to visit that lodge.
I think they probably did know and did it deliberately, in order to cash in on it. Otherwise, why no back wall in the reception area?
Such beautiful animals. I know they can be dangerous but they need to be protected at all costs 🥰
This is one elephant in the room that people are willing to talk about.
"May I use your phone, please? I need to make a trunk call."
Underrated comment, a lot of people won't get it😂😂😂
@@bzilla-d4i Yeah, a bit dated, isn't it? ;)
“Hello this is room service”
“This is bob in 203, can you guys keep it down?! It sounds like a herd of elephants are in the lobby”
“Well, you see”
Very, very good one!🤣
lollllllllllllll haha🤣🤣🤣
The elephants got there at 11 but their rooms won’t be ready for check in until 3.
What an amazing, sweet video. Thanks much for posting & adding joy to my drab day! I love Ellies! 🐘🐘💕
Actually, it was the humans encroaching on the elephants area and the elephants had to accept it, but with dignity!
Excuse you, it's the humans that encroached on the elephants area.
Hooray! At least one person acknowledged that humans built their lodge over the elephant's traditional trail and that humans were/are encroaching on their habitat.
It's well documented that when Kariba dam was built across the Zambezi River the elephant's continued to follow their traditional routes even though they were now flooded and they had to swim instead of walk. Fortunately, or perhaps with thought, whoever planned the lodge, designed it with floors capable of withstanding the elephant's weight and size and materials easily cleaned for the inevitable "dump", and in the direction of the traditional trail. If they hadn't the roof would have been torn off and the walls flattened. Even the pillars look to be substantial enough to withstand an impromptu "back rub'".
100%
It really is like the guy said it's like they know they are in human territory and are willing to deal with the unusual closeness
Elephants are insanely intelligent and aware of what they're doing. They've even been proven to remember human faces for years and years
“Why is everybody staring? We’re paying guests just like everybody else!!”
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Lol they said y’all built this on OUR path.
Right
The elephants didn’t realize they were encroaching on a human place?!? Uhh, the elephants have been using that place for possibly 100 yrs
They said that they *did* realize that, my guy.