TWO WEEK OLD BABY ELEPHANT LEARNS HOW TO BLOW BUBBLES IN THE WATER FOR THE FIRST TIME

Two-week-old elephant calf was born Reid Park Zoo in Tucson, Arizona

Her mother Semba watches fondly as her baby girl plays with the water

Elephant calves learn how to eat and drink with their trunks at six months

When they are first born baby elephants don't really know what to do with their trunks - apart from swing them to and fro and sometimes step on them.   Many elephant babies suck their trunk just like human babies suck their thumb, and usually it takes until six to eight months they can use their trunks to eat and drink. So this baby girl elephant must be quite precocious. 

 

With her proud mom Semba.

 

The video from the zoo, which is documenting every stage of the as-yet-unnamed girl's development on its website, shows her with Semba and a tub of water as she makes short work of using her trunk to suck up water and blow bubbles, her ears flapping madly as she plays.

 

See video here - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2750477/Trunk-training-Adorable-baby-elephant-learns-blow-bubbles-water-time.html

Photos - YouTube Reid Park Zoo, Tucson, Arizona - Daily Mail

 

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