A very sweet picture

Jingle

Will you please put the u tube link up to the orangutan watching the joke , I still don't know how to put links up.

If you feel I am rude in asking I apologise now.

How to have fun!

youtu.be/0QXxEYNdfOE

Yes! I saw that! That was amazing. So human!

Jingle

I like the photo.

Did you or anybody else see the photos in the Daily Mail of the orangutan laughing at a joke with a cup and a disappearing nut he was watching at a zoo???

It's on u tube. PERHAPS SOMEBODY COULD PUT A LINK UP TO IT! It too is lovely and the human relationship is a joy to watch. The orangutan is adorable .

That's lovely, jings, thank you!

I think the slope of the backs of African and Asian elephants are different.

Oooh! lots of differences. www.upali.ch/differences_en.html

I do!

You learn a lot on Gransnet!

It's gorgeous! ?

Baby elephants have to learn to control their trunks which have no bones, just over 40,000 muscles which is why we see their trunks waving all over the place! They even stand on them or trip over them which looks comical, but can be serious if they're running for safety. I always knew about the ears of African and Asian elephants being different, but not about the ends of their trunks. The end of an African elephant has 2 “fingers” and the Asian elephant has 1 “finger”. ?

....can't watch footage of Echo without bursting into tears...

Not sure if this is a clip or the whole episode [or if it will work]but it's Ebony, my favourite elephant
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIOjWtm-bZo

That is so beautiful Elegran. Thanks for sharing!

Second part is a close-up, and a very milk-covered baby.

Youtube video of baby elephant suckling You do have to wait for the advertising video to finish first, but once it starts the baby elephant is cute. You can see that it is suckling with its mouth and the little trunk is waving about like the hands of a human baby when it is feeding.

I'm up for a sweet picture but no luck with that link. Elephants are OK but not my absolute favourite but thanks for posting though.

The trunk is the nose and upper lip, and elephants drink by sucking up water in the trunk (up to 15 litres a pull) and then squirting it into ther mouth, not by using it as a straw. The tiny babies are just big enough to reach their milk if mamma stands still for long enough, and use their mouths to suck. Her teats are beside her front legs, not near the back ones as in most mammals. Lots of photos of baby elephants

www.realclearscience.com/blog/2013/10/the-most-amazing-appendage-in-the-world.html
www.thedodo.com/7-awesome-things-an-elephant-d-548824684.html

imgur.com/gallery/OZGaTSF

That's better!

perhaps it will load better from here

Oh what a pain! Sorry about that.

I got the timer thing too.

Probably really sweet but it won't download, just some silly thingy going round and round in the middle of a black screen!
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Thats a thought thatbags, so how do they reach? Maybe the mums lay down?

How sweet!

don't

I guess they din't use their trunks to suck milk from mama elephant either.