There is a clique that’s oh, so chic
Forever fine in fashion
Always alert to dish the dirt
On mud piles where they’re splashin’
Each rainy day they come to play
You’ll never hold them back
They paint the town not red, but brown
The well renowned Mud Pack
Elephants
Links: The Insurance Claim Must Be Epic
Elephant flips car, baby orangutan makes public debut, endangered donkey finds a safe home, and a dog with googly eyes.
She’ll flip ya. Flip ya for real.
Playful mother elephant flips parked SUV in Khao Yai for fun
Straits Times, via NTMTOM
Now making his public debut!
Philadelphia Zoo Announces Birth of Sumatran Orangutan
Philadelphia Zoo, via Tara O.
And finally: Why I Eyes Ya
via Mastodon
The Story of Korbessa
Last August, in a remote part of Kenya, rangers heard a commotion of elephants. They investigated and found a baby elephant trapped in a deep well at Korbesa.
Rescuers waited for her mother, but none ever came. So they took the baby, tired and weak from her ordeal, to the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust for care.
One year later, “she is one of the cleverest — and bossiest — elephants we have ever met,” says the Trust on its website. “We feel certain that we have a future matriarch on our hands.”
Baby Steps
Standing for the first time on unsteady legs, a new baby begins its life. In these scenes from The Secret Life of the Zoo, a baby giraffe, zebra, elephant and others take those important first steps.