Have You Ever Wondered How an Elephant Drinks? | Baby Khanyisa & the Herd Show You How
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 22 мар 2022
- Many people expect that those great big trunks on elephants act as straws when it comes to drinking, but this is not exactly the case. Elephants use those long, muscular trunks to suck up water through their nostrils, only as a way to then pour the water into their large mouths for swallowing. This is a lot like a human lifting a glass of water to their mouth to drink. But the trunk does have great sucking and blowing qualities like a straw, and you may notice elephants squirting water or sand over their bodies, each other, or in our case, over our carers at the waterhole.
Read more about elephant trunks here - herd.org.za/the-anatomy-of-an...
Watch in this video as we show you several views of the elephants drinking - including Bubi, scenes of Fishan fishing for the best water, Lundi drinking water from a hole she dug in the earth, and Jabulani at the end, with his herd around him. Elephants have incredible control over their trunks as they grow older, but in their early years, they need to develop those trunk muscles and learn to manoeuvre it in the ways they need to in the wild.
Watch as Khanyisa carries out that typical calf move of drinking with her mouth - while she learns to still master her trunk. But she soon learns to drink from the hosepipe and suck up the water to pour into her mouth.
We hope you're enjoying learning more about elephants with us! 
Животные
Their trunks are incredibly versatile, strong & extremely important.
Lundi has impressive digging skills....that hole was perfectly round! ❤🙏🐘
I love being a student of the Herd Orphanage School of Elephants. 💗
We are all learning together!
💞Glorious water 💦 slurp, splash and spray. Every day is a HERDedu day, with so many subtleties to observe and enjoy. ✨🌿
Thank you to all the Herd elephants for so generously giving their time to demonstrate how elephants drink water. They were excellent demonstrators! Those trunks are truly amazing….40,000 different muscles! Little K is getting brilliant with her trunk (opening gate locks)…and it will be so much fun to see how that little trunk learns to do many more tasks! 🐘🐘🐘🐘♥️🌈
It's just amazing watching these gentle giants using their trunks. ❤️🐘🐘❤️
Love those giant straws!!!! 💞💞
There’s no other creature like the elephant :
It’s nose is an arm and hand but Also a hose!
It has four knees!
Biggest land animal!
Simply one of the most amazing creatures ❤️ 🐘
Thank you for letting me know their life.
Thanks to your channel ,I got to know
how elephants are gentle ,smart ,and socializing and many more….
Thank you all .
Thanks for watching and supporting us!
Thank you for teaching us! So amazing--these elephants are incredible creatures!
Very therapeutic watching these wonderful creatures in a crazy world. 😌
Lundi digging a water hole perfectly demonstrates why elephants are keystone animals that support other wildlife. Water is life and during a drought, an elephant's ability to find and dig a water hole will help other animals survive.
Gracias por compartir todos y cada una de las actividades en la vida de los elefantes Criaturas Magníficas e inteligentes Gracias por cuidar y proteger a la pequeña KHANYISA 🐘 ADINE y todo el personal trabajador muy dedicados al cuidado y proteccion de todos los Elefantes 🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘
Very interesting Khanyisa is so cute and so sweet
❤❤❤ Love and Gratitude to everyone at HERD.
It is my dream to adopt sweet little Khanyisa. 😊💜🌸🐘
Simply adore our precious water babies!! The perfect pink one is beyond adorable!! 💙💟💙💋🐘💋🐘💋🐘💋💙💟💙
Awesome compilation video with excellent education. An added delight is it’s with elephants you’re helping us get to know & recognize. Such a respectful way to inform. 🙏🐘♥️♥️
What magnificent animals💖
The power of the trunk! Loved to see the progress in Khanyisa’s drinking. She has loved that water hose to play with, to drink from…
Thank you for this video. Love learning about these wonderful animals ❤️
Thanks for sharing these moments with us. Hi khanyisa ❤️
Trunks are truly amazing tools for the elephants!💕🐘
I love these videos! Learning more about them (the number of muscles in their trunks!!) makes me appreciate these beautiful creatures even more. Thank you!
Hearing what it sounds like to siphon then squirt the water is amazing. And it’s so smart to dig a little hole for some ground water. I always knew that the trunk was a “transport mechanism” for water, among so many other things. Even as a child, it was my only logical explanation. Lol. What I didn’t realize was what a wonderfully complex appendage it actually is. Thank you for this.
If only show and tell at school had been half as interesting.. Thank you HERD for this beautiful explanation.
You are such wonderful teachers! I love every lesson you give us. One of my favorites was your video re: the dung beetle. Such an industrious little bug! Please teach us more!
Thank you for showing that to us, I just assumed that's how they drink water but never saw it up close as this.😍
Thank you for sharing with us. I really enjoy the education I've received from all of the elephants as well as the staff. I hope you realize how fascinated we are with HERD and SA. It brings me joy every single day during some of the darkest time our world is experiencing.
Thank you for your support 😊
Beautiful, fascinating creatures. 🐘💕
Very informative. Thanks !!
Excellent information .. 😊
-Seattle Family 💕
Very interesting ! Thank you !
😀to your health elephant 🐘 darlings
These 'learning' videos are great, thanks! 🙏 Especially appreciate the sounds of the water being sucked up into the trunk then the drinking. 40,000 muscles in the trunk alone! Wow!! Aw, the footage of little Miss baby-Pinkylicious submerging her mouth in the water to drink is too adorable!! 🤗❤🐘❤
OMG she's gorgeous getting her water from that hose
That was very interesting. I enjoy Elephant Lessons. They are such an easygoing and complex animal. In close ups, I never realized how hairy they were!
Seems to be universal, all baby elephants love hosepipes (same with asian elephants at ENP!).
This is priceless !!!
Thank you once again for a very informative lesson about these amazing animals. It was interesting seeing Kkanyisa's progress as she was gaining control of her trunk. Once again your teaching assistants are wonderful.
The best teachers ever 😅
That was just amazing. I've never heard the sounds related to elephants drinking water. It sounds remarkably familiar. Haha.
❤️🐘
Great video! Thanks 😊
Truly wonderful learning experience! Thank you 🙏
40000 muscles is a lot of MOJO. No wonder it takes the babies a while to develop all of them.
khanyis is just so cute and the big ones are just so big and beautiful please send more 😄😆😉😘
Hey Adine, I always enjoy watching your amazing elephant videos, they always brighten up my days. 😊💜🌸🐘 Elephants are intelligent. I always love sweet & precious little Khanyisa & Timisa. 💜🐘
Sounded like a loud pump when Lundi sucked the water out of the hole! Khanyisa is learning all kinds of ways to deal with wonderful water and it's fun to watch. She has a lot of determination this little girl.
Can they breathe through their mouth? It always looks so closed off in there whenever we get a look at their molars. Great stuff😉
We believe they can breathe through their mouths as well as their trunks. There’s definitely a lot of space in those mouths. We will share a diagram of it soon ❤️
I think they can only breathe through their trunks, since they're unable to drink water through their trunks, they only suck the water up with their trunks and then blow the water into their mouths. At least that's what I've seen, I've never seen an elephant actually drink through its trunk
My goodness seeing little Khanyisa scars reminds me how much pain she must have been in to eat, drink, vocalize and so much more and yet she really did not show her pain to us in crying or moaning in pain. Beautiful Khanyisa
Doce e linda Khanyisa 😍❤️🐘❤️
I enjoy watching the elephants drink water, little Khanyisa is like a human child. 😊💜🌸🐘
yes in baby steps - love it
Awesome
Super interesting 💛
Elephant trunks are very utilitarian…….they use for all kinds of things,,,,,,,I’ve seen them use trunks as a snorkel in deep water, very interesting, Thankyou
How clever of Lundi to dig her own well. Maybe elephants showed humans how to do it. It is very clever to sense where water will be too. Maybe elephants can smell water beneath the ground?
and Herman has patients of a saint
He certainly does!
🐘🐘🐘🐘💕💕💕💕
And ladies and Gentleman, that's how an elephant drink water. Directly from the hose. Live it to Khanyisa to demonstrate the technique 🤣
🤣she certainly knows how to charm us.
How do they clean the inside of their trunks after sucking up sand & mud and spraying/throwing it over their body? Thanks for enlightening about the ele world!
also used to squirt things at you like water or mud lol
SWIMMING? HOW DO THEY SUBMERGE UNDER WATER WHILE SWIMMING WITHOUT DROWNING? DO THEIR TRUNKS GET COMPLETELY SUBMERGED????
They are very good at floating due to their large bodies and their trunks can go under water too for a while yes, but they will come back up to breathe air again, like a snorkel. There is some more info available here herd.org.za/swimming-trunks-the-elephants-love-of-the-waterhole/
❤👍
DRinking through the hole in the sand is a great way to gilter out most particles that would irritate an elephants trunk insides.
Very interesting! 💦
Is there a valve in the trunk that prevents sucking up too much water?
Funny what mirror-neurons pick up. I find, having watched the herd videos daily for months now, that I use my arm like a trunk when I eat salad greens, grabbing a fistful and raising it in the air and curving it back toward my mouth to insert it. Just a cosy piece of solidarity. But definitely cannot slurp up water with my nose... I sometimes find myself plodding like them too, especially in high boots in the snow.
Thanks so much for the morning chuckle 😂😂 may your elephant skills only develop and strengthen as the months pass
Yeah. Elephants are interesting beings.
Elephants cannot actually drink water through their trunks, even if they wanted to, because their trunks only connect to their lungs and not to their esophagus, am I right? Only their mouths connect to their esophagus and stomach, there's no cross connection between the inside of their trunks and their mouths or esophagus, is my understanding. If they such water up their trunks without blowing it back out, they'll choke. They can't breathe through their mouths, only through their trunks
Tatenda 🥰
Interesting. Do they determine if certain water is suitable for drinking or will they consume it regardless if 'tainted' (contains urine, feces, organic matter, runoff, etc)? Having seen other videos of elephants drinking, the sound was quite loud. Akin to just dumping water down the throat (like pail of water poured into an empty tub) versus using the throat muscles to facilitate swallowing (subtle gulping).
O[ooooo isn't that dangerous to have a hole like that so deep they could accidentally step into?
Isn't that what happened to Fishan?
What made the hole?
Learned a new word....PROBOSCIS
In italiano proboscide
Was Lundi like a desert elephant? In watching documentaries I recall seeing them digging a whole to find water.
The reserve gets very dry during the winter - called the dry season - compared to summer which is the wet or rainy season here in South Africa. The elephants adapt to the very arid conditions in Africa that come with the seasons and will dig for water like Lundi more in these times of years 💦🐘
Lundi and Tokwe can probably due very well then in the wild. As they know where to find water even in a drought.
No - I've never wondered that.
Something I was wondering about. Is there a thought that Khanyisa might have problems with her eyes when she gets older; they being so sensitive to light?
I would also want to know, please
Khanyisa’s eyes are sensitive to the light of the sun, as there is no pigment in her eyes (and therefore nothing to reflect the sunlight). It has been thought that this can lead to blindness in albino animals. However, there are older albino elephants in the wild - including two in our own Reserve - who don’t have significant problems with their eyesight.
Khanyisa is very adapted to the light and will close her eyes in bright light to avoid the glare and will open them in dim light or shade like that cast by the big shadows of the elephants around her. Elephants rely much more on their other senses than on eyesight to navigate their world.
Hope this answers your question.