Hey guys? Um, there’s this thing attached to my face. I think it’s a snake or something. Should I be concerned about this?
Confused baby trunkster, via Faye.
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Hey guys? Um, there’s this thing attached to my face. I think it’s a snake or something. Should I be concerned about this?
Confused baby trunkster, via Faye.
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Can’t watch video right now but just the still pic in my email has me smiling.
Cute, silly bebeh elephants. Whoever was filming this, seemed a bit close and were lucky the protective mom and near the end of this video, perhaps it’s the dad, didn’t charge the car.
Brand new baby trunkster is so cute trying to tame it’s long nose! I also love the older sibling, it’s obvious it’s looking out for it’s younger sibling but I don’t think the matriarch approved of it’s goofing off trying to do a “trunk stand” on the road ??
There is so much happening here.
Baby tries to step on its trunk to get rid of it, like stepping on your sock to pull it off. Older sister yawns at the people. Baby’s ears are causing him just as much trouble as his trunk: dang things keep flopping around. Mom gives hoomins a death-glare. Middle sister is either trying to do a ‘trunk stand’ as Gigi says, or is taking a moment when mom isn’t looking to moon the watchers.
Effalunts are wonderful.
Gah! I’m ded. I wonder what little heffalump is really thinking…
Wait until it discovers sneezing! I laughed myself silly, because I’d do the same thing if I had a trunk.
Mom sure meant business. Great family action.
I’m thinking he might grow attached to it .. not that he has a choice in the matter
“Is it a noodle? I think it’s a noodle.”
This whole family needs its own TV show.
“Why Won’t You Behave!” – the Taming of the Snout. Did Mom sneeze there? Thought she might have.
I wonder if baby heffalump has a little something stuck up his nose, or an itch. But he could just be playing. “Hey! Looka what I c’n do!”
Big sib nose-plant on ground is pretty funny too. “Yeah? That’s nuttin. Looka what *I* c’n do!”
Mom: “Don’t make me come back there!”
That was my thought, too. I don’t want to be a ’nuffer but I’m not 100% sure this is cute.
However, I am overly influenced by the 1939 novel “Saranga the Pygmy” by Attilio Gatti https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attilio_Gatti which I read as a child (presumably in translation, since he was Italian, though my copy does not credit a translator), my mother having passed it down to me after it was one of her childhood books. In the climax (spoiler alert) the protagonist saves the life of an elephant that was about to die because a fly had laid eggs inside its trunk which grew (which I don’t think eggs do, so despite Gatti’s first-hand knowledge of Africa, this part of the story may be fanciful) until the elephant was unable to breathe.
So I can’t look at an elephant seeming to have something fishy about its trunk without thinking of that story. I hope this little fella really was just playing with his body parts trying to figure out how they work.
It’s rough when you’ve got something attached to your face that has 40,000 muscles in it and you try to figure out how to control it!! But I love watching when they figure it all out and become so dexterous when plucking a tiny bit of grass perfectly. But you have to admit those bebehs are much funnier before they get the hang of it!! Good thing they don’t mind hoomins laughing at them.
Would that be called trunkual dexterity?