Wide-Eyed Baby Elephant

“It’s scary enough taking your first steps in the world. But when a crowd is watching you, it can be even more frightening. That certainly seems to be the case for this three-week-old elephant calf ‘Baby’ making her first public appearance at Melbourne Zoo. She kept very close to her mother, narrowly avoiding being trampled on as she rolled on the ground. Then, to the delight of the zoo’s visitors, she had her first dip in the water. Her look of pure terror turned to delight as she sprayed her trunk, guaranteeing herself as the zoo’s prime attraction for years to come.” LINK,

Baby elephant born in australia zoo

Dokkoon gives birth to a healthy girl, weighing 110 kilos at Melbourne Zoo, becoming the first ever elephant birth. LINK: Youtube

African Elephants Attack

Two tourists and a guide are trampled in Southern Africa. LINK: Youtube

Elephant on Water Skis

1959 Home movies - An elephant water skis behind a boat at the Pittsburgh Bicentennial regatta. LINK: Youtube

"Elephant and Dog Prove Best Friends "

A lovely story about an elephant and a dog who found each other at the Elephant Sanctuary in Hohenwald, Tennessee. Link, Via: Youtube

Steampunk Mechanical Elephant

This amazing mechanical design was made out of transmission parts, electrical conduits, plumbing pipes and 20-gauge cold rolled steel.

It is 36" x 36" x 18" and weighs about 85 pounds.

All the joints move and lock in place; turning a gear on the elephant's side winds a cable around a shaft which raises and lowers the trunk; the ears move back and forth and can fan out (to dissipate heat). LINK

Talking Elephant?

Talking elephants are not just fictional characters in Dumbo. At the Oakland Zoo, a biologist is discovering that elephants do communicate with each other. What makes this discovery more surprising is that they can send and receive messages with their feet. LINK: Youtube

Elephant photographers

Filmmaker John Downer turned a bunch o elephants into walking cameras and used them to capture scenes of the jungle:
He fixed webcams to four elephants. One carried a "trunk-cam" - a device resembling a huge log concealing a camera which could be held in its trunk and dangled close to the ground.

Another had a "tusk-cam" hooked over its tusk. The elephants moved so steadily that the images are pin-sharp. Other log-cams were left on the forest floor.

The high-definition cameras were created by inventor Geoff Bell for a documentary in the remote Pench National Park in Madhya Pradesh in the heart of India. LINK, Via: Boingboing

40ft Robot Elephant

.A 40ft mechanical elephant walks around london picking up cars. In real life. Theres also a two storey tall schoolgirl and a space rocket, if that's not enough for you. LINK

Elephant Darts

Dart contest between human and elephant in Thailand. LINK: Youtube