Thirsty Baby Trunkster

Poor baby trunksters. As we recently saw, elephants enter this world with vacuum cleaner attachments on their faces and no idea how to use them. While mom and the others snuffle up water with their built-in drinking straws, baby trunkster gives up and gets a drink the hard way.




Found on Mother Nature Network by Murray C.

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9 thoughts on “Thirsty Baby Trunkster

  1. Dubravkamcvmd September 6, 2017 / 9:41 am

    That looks like the same baby. Very impatient!

  2. Blue Footed Booby September 6, 2017 / 10:07 am

    I wonder if mama realizes her baby is a gigantic doofus.

  3. fkaWaldenPond September 6, 2017 / 10:59 am

    Ahhhhhh, gaaawwwdd, kersplat.

  4. Duckie ? September 6, 2017 / 11:25 am

    Almost had it at one point.

  5. Faye September 6, 2017 / 1:12 pm

    Suck it up little elephant!

  6. Patty September 6, 2017 / 5:28 pm

    As with the other baby trunkster, all I could think is “This would be me if I suddenly woke up as a man.” I’d have no clue what to do…

    • Faye September 6, 2017 / 6:07 pm

      Roflol. Sigh.

    • Smartypants September 7, 2017 / 3:52 pm

      LOL, that was my reaction to the earlier video – wait ’til he realizes he’s a boy! “Wait, another noodle? Now I’m really confused!”

  7. Michael September 7, 2017 / 4:39 am

    Elephants have to LEARN to suck water up into their trunks and squirt it into their mouths? It’s not an instinctive behavior?? How do they learn it, then? It’s not like mama elephant can say “Here, kid, do this” — because elephants can’t talk. I suppose the babies might learn by watching, but it can’t be obvious from observation that the adults are inhaling just a little to suck water into the end of their trunks (without sucking it into their noses).

    I guess the alternative is that it IS instinctive, but the instinct doesn’t kick in till a certain age. Walking is probably a human instinct — we’d probably figure it out even if we’d never seen another person walk — but we don’t do it till we’re a year or so old. I think of instincts as being present from birth (baby lions play at hunting as soon as they can move), but maybe not. Hmm. I feel psychologically ignorant.

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