Baby Elephant Rescued by other elephants

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O-BFMcwiY8"]YouTube - Baby Elephant rescue[/nomedia]

 

Hi Alice,
I have taken my own photos of animals where it shows that parents are allowing their kids to do things but are keeping a wary eye on them - and controlling them when necessary.

Off the top of my head I can think of some photos I took of elephants at a watering hole where one baby was getting out of control so two adults sandwiched the baby between them to stop it overdoing things. Also some red colobus monkeys, where a baby wanted to play with the humans and the mum only allowed it to do so when a group of other adults had collected around us - just above our heads. And a baby hippo that started to take too much of an interest in us so a group of adults surrounded it.

 

Here's another elephant saga I spotted on the BBC today:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11795932Elephant and crocodile 'tug of war'

That poor old elephant must have had one hell of a shock, it seems it didn't come to any harm in the end

 

I love those Gary Larson cartoons, yes it's quite surreal - I think the crocodile must have had a bit of a fright too when it realised it wasn't a giant sausage being dangled in the water.