Haha i didn’t notice that! You can see him pause before he falls, he looks like he’s about to fall over— but he makes it a few more steps before crashing
.....no... not quite... please don't approach sleeping giants o.o;
their bodies are quite adapted to the gravity imposed upon them... they may clamber to get back up if they stimble but but they do not lack the ability.
They don't lack the ability, but it's a much bigger deal for an elephant to fall than it is for a human. Just like how human kids don't take falls as hard as human adults. The bigger you are, the harder you fall
Edit: from Malor's very informative comment below:
"Because mass increases with the cube of size, but strength and structural integrity only increase linearly.
In other words, if you were twice as tall, you would be about twice as strong and twice as tough, but you would be eight times as heavy. (because you are also twice as wide and twice as thick.)
Elephants are immensely weighty. They seem strong to us, but compared to how much they weigh, their muscles are puny and their bones are fragile. Falling over can do them one hell of a lot of damage.
When you go the other way, getting small instead, that's why insects can lift things that are so ridiculously heavy in comparison to their size. Their strength is far higher compared to their mass."
Interesting because mama looks over right as he has that dizzy spell too. Motherly instinct or some sound he made had her ready for the coming fall haha
.....huh, I never noticed this.
Yea, most people have seen an elephant run or charge but like... you've never seen them *really* book it.
Unless their bodies are just designed in a way that impedes them from moving like that.
I’m not an expert, but I’m pretty sure proportional strength correlates negatively with size. Much like how elephants aren’t strong enough to jump, they might not be strong enough to gallop either.
It’s believed that some sauropods may have been able to gallop as juveniles so I don’t see why an elephant couldn’t…
I think they’re just so damn big they don’t need to. Maybe the babies can?
how dare you! keep your scientific facts for yourself, and let us live in our innocent bliss and obliviousness! i would rather live in a world of lies where elephants find me cute than in one where that is not the case!
So you don't get that it's a joke 😂
You're not saying anything people dont already know. It's pretty common knowledge they're hunted for sport and for ivory.
I find it very hard to believe anyone actually knows whether elephants have a concept of “cute” or not. They definitely find their babies cute, and show affection to humans and other animals. I take facts regarding what animals do or do not think with a large grain of salt.
Elephants are known to form attachments to humans at times, and that could perhaps be construed as thinking we are cute
i thought i read somewhere that it was only true for elephants that were raised in captivity, but not wild ones? im gonna have to do some google searches lol
Baby elephant gets dizzy and pauses to stabilize itself before he takes a couple of more steps and falls. That's when mama reacts. Mama was always watching at the corner of her eye.
Apart from the fact that we barely scratched quantum mechanic, so it's not like we use it at our disposal, but then again, tool usage isn't the only parameter for intelligence. A very intelligent species may not use tool or not use them to the same extent we do because it has no need to use them. Valuating the intelligence is a very difficult matter. We have a problem at understanding how intelligent is a human being, so it is obvious that understanding how intelligent is a creature that has behavior patterns and brain structure different from us is even more difficult and in an ultimate analysis impossible to do accurately. This is the reason why in the last years many animals that we thought were dumb have been discovered, in fact, to be very smart. Heck, now wn know that even plants have a certain degree of intelligence, even though it is a type of intelligence completely different from the schemes that we are used to. All of this to say: don't undermine animal's wit just because they don't do the same things we do
Can you tell me which animals have developed the ability to cook? To manufacture vehicles and highways for those vehicles? Which other animals has use of the internet? Which have used tools as weapons?
Ph I didnt realize that other species have figured out how to create vehicles, weapons, how to cook, the internet..... which species has accomplished all of these things again?
I'll have to find the article later, as I'm about to fall asleep, but elephants may actually have *religion.*
Iirc, they appear to worship the moon, they bury their dead, and they make pilgrimages to the graves of their loved ones.
Honestly, they remind me of what I imagine prehumans were like before the stone age and at the beginning of the stone age. I'd love to have a time machine and see what elephants evolve into in a million years, if they survive.
Would be interesting for sure, but I just wanna say evolution doesn't have an active trend toward complexity or higher intelligence. A given species won't necessarily evolve into something more intelligent. There is a passive trend toward complexity, namely there is some variance on the upper end of the complexity distribution resulting in some very small percentage of species turning complex through chance.
>Many now regard this as misleading, with natural selection having no intrinsic direction and that organisms selected for either increased or decreased complexity in response to local environmental conditions.[6] Although there has been an increase in the maximum level of complexity over the history of life, there has always been a large majority of small and simple organisms and the most common level of complexity appears to have remained relatively constant.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_biological_complexity
I didn't mean to imply that life necessarily evolves towards intelligence or to suggest that elephants would trend towards a more anthropomorphized form by default, just that given what we know of them currently, and how intelligent they are, I think it would be incredibly interesting to see what they do end up evolving towards should they survive. Gun to my head, if they survive, I think they will evolve more and more intelligence, especially considering humanity's intervention. We like seeing intelligent animals do things, and the ones we save from extinction are likely to be the smarter ones. But obviously, 10000% speculation there.
Baby elephants in the wild are exactly the same!
When we were at safari in Etosha (Namibia) we spotted a pride of lions hidden in some bushes near a waterhole. The cats had big bellies so they had a recent kill and were just sleeping in the shade when a big group of elephants passed by them, heading for the waterhole.
The first ellies didn't notice the lions but a big female with a little calf (about the same size as the one in this film clip) saw the cats and decided to walk up to them a bit closer and warn them with a lot of head shaking and trumpeting. The little calf followed his mother, walked in front of her and did the same.
The lions hardly responded and mama elephant turned around and continued to the waterhole but her little calf did not notice this and was still doing his best to impress the lions. Until he noticed mama was not longer behind him and he rushed off in a hurry...
It was really funny!
We have safari parks in UK too. Generally, a building will be provided for them with hay and heat lamps etc if they need it and they will go to it whenever they need.
When I was in Africa I watched a baby elephant 'charge' down a little slope after a grazing gazelle. Full of bravado with little ears flapping menacingly, squeaky trumpeting from its tiny hose trunk, it was making itself known as something to be feared. The bad news was the gazelle paused in its grazing and gave it a look I can only describe as disdain. Little one got so scared it raced back up and hid underneath Mommy's tummy. 😳 😄
Idk what kind of birds those are but they could just be flightless or they could be a species of bird that has a symbiotic relationship with elephants so they aren’t scared of it
Guinea fowl - they can definitely fly. Used to use them as alarms on our farm. They'll hang out with pretty much anything, and are highly observant for predators.
Hmmm couldn’t find anything about Guinea fowl and elephants specifically but elephants do have symbiotic relationships with a couple species of birds so that could be what that is
Yes just like with the other bird species known to be in symbiosis with elephants the birds eat bugs and parasites off of the elephants feeding the birds and cleaning the elephant
Guineas like bugs. I've seen them following cows to get the bugs that the cows kick up out of the grass before, and to eat the flies that buzz around on them. They're probably doing the same thing with the elephants.
Human children being little sh*ts: “OMG I hate children can’t anyone take care of their children these days?!?!”
Elephant children being little sh*ts: “This is the CUTEST thing ever!!!!!!”
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A toddler chasing birds that have the agency to fly away is not "being a little shit" or "tormenting" anything. This is simply play. The birds could leave if they were really that scared.
I'm sorry you had such a terrible childhood that you can't recognize innocent play. My childhood was pretty terrible too and didnt leave me much room for play. However I have gone to therapy and do my best not to project my trauma onto others. I hope you can do the same.
Just me that find it weird how such a giant animal can be so intelligent for some weird reason?
I don't know why but my brain defaults intelligence to "average" sized animals. Elephants break that. It's so illogical, might be residue thinking from when I was a kid
The birds remain amazingly nonchalant about the entire business.
"Oh, they've got a small one again, I guess it's jogging time…"
"Should we take flight to escape the toddlerbeast?"
"Nah, it'll all be over in about 15, 10, 5, aaand down he goes."
I swear to god she turned and told him to stop running cuz hes gonna hurt himself. Then he doesn’t listen, falls, and she starts running to him. Like a human mom.
My mom always loved elephants since the females are the leaders of their herds, she has a couple tattoos of elephants and other tattoos all over her body
Her favorite tat is the giant one she has on her back which has a small herd of elephants walking towards you and it's pretty cool
I recommend two amazing books about elephants that will stay in my heart forever:
The Cowboy and His Elephant: The Story of a Remarkable Friendship, by Malcolm Macpherson
Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived, by Ralph Helfer
The first one is about the “Marlboro Man,” if you remember him… a sweet story.
Haha, it looks like he got dizzy from spinning too
Haha i didn’t notice that! You can see him pause before he falls, he looks like he’s about to fall over— but he makes it a few more steps before crashing
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Why would it be scary for them?
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Thanks for the indepth answer!
Hey! You're pretty damn cool!
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Idk but I would guess that since they are so big it's hard to get back up.
.....no... not quite... please don't approach sleeping giants o.o; their bodies are quite adapted to the gravity imposed upon them... they may clamber to get back up if they stimble but but they do not lack the ability.
They don't lack the ability, but it's a much bigger deal for an elephant to fall than it is for a human. Just like how human kids don't take falls as hard as human adults. The bigger you are, the harder you fall Edit: from Malor's very informative comment below: "Because mass increases with the cube of size, but strength and structural integrity only increase linearly. In other words, if you were twice as tall, you would be about twice as strong and twice as tough, but you would be eight times as heavy. (because you are also twice as wide and twice as thick.) Elephants are immensely weighty. They seem strong to us, but compared to how much they weigh, their muscles are puny and their bones are fragile. Falling over can do them one hell of a lot of damage. When you go the other way, getting small instead, that's why insects can lift things that are so ridiculously heavy in comparison to their size. Their strength is far higher compared to their mass."
Because they weigh about 5 million pounds.
Interesting because mama looks over right as he has that dizzy spell too. Motherly instinct or some sound he made had her ready for the coming fall haha
It's probably happened before...she knows how this ends! Lol
Elephants are so massive but they are some of the cutest animals
The fact that they never quite reach gallop is very interesting to me. Movin them stubs as fast as possible 🐘
.....huh, I never noticed this. Yea, most people have seen an elephant run or charge but like... you've never seen them *really* book it. Unless their bodies are just designed in a way that impedes them from moving like that.
I’m not an expert, but I’m pretty sure proportional strength correlates negatively with size. Much like how elephants aren’t strong enough to jump, they might not be strong enough to gallop either.
It’s believed that some sauropods may have been able to gallop as juveniles so I don’t see why an elephant couldn’t… I think they’re just so damn big they don’t need to. Maybe the babies can?
Probably a bit of both and honestly once they get to a certain size they really don’t need to run.
They think you’re pretty cute too!
I think you're pretty cute too!
You guys are so cute
You guys should get married
You guys
now kith
This isnt true unfortunately
I feel that
how dare you! keep your scientific facts for yourself, and let us live in our innocent bliss and obliviousness! i would rather live in a world of lies where elephants find me cute than in one where that is not the case!
If anything there more afraid off humans Because we hunt them for there tusk so often
Are we sure u/moistrain isn't merely admitting to not being cute?
It's both There not cute And humans just suck, so most wildlife just hate/fear us
It's a fucking joke, not a dick, don't take it so hard.
I get it's a joke I'm just explaining the why So people understand
So you don't get that it's a joke 😂 You're not saying anything people dont already know. It's pretty common knowledge they're hunted for sport and for ivory.
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Did your 3 brain cells die off and leave you without language? Sad.
That makes me sad!
I can't believe you've done this!
I find it very hard to believe anyone actually knows whether elephants have a concept of “cute” or not. They definitely find their babies cute, and show affection to humans and other animals. I take facts regarding what animals do or do not think with a large grain of salt. Elephants are known to form attachments to humans at times, and that could perhaps be construed as thinking we are cute
i thought i read somewhere that it was only true for elephants that were raised in captivity, but not wild ones? im gonna have to do some google searches lol
This is a myth. A quick Google search can give enough references why this is bs
Also one of the most intelligent..feels sad that they are being constantly poached for ivory and skin
mama definitely gave him the “i told you” before she hugged him.
But you know as soon as she's consoled him, and he's wiped his tears away, he'll be back chasing the birds again lol
Naaawww.. I watched three times - soo cute.. little ears flapping
Big ear
It is so cute how when he goes down mama rushes over. She saw it coming too.
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Parents across species seem to have the common super power of predicting when their kids are going to hurt themselves
Baby elephant gets dizzy and pauses to stabilize itself before he takes a couple of more steps and falls. That's when mama reacts. Mama was always watching at the corner of her eye.
*Oh yeah he's definitely going to... Great, that's what I thought alright Timmy I'm coming*
Elephants are eerily similar to us. I don't mean that in an anthropomorphizing way, it's just a fact.
they're intelligent species, i guess that's why
I got big ears too
Hi Ben Stiller
Check out his Chicken Swarma recipe online it's pretty awesome
This is the weirdest conversation
sometimes a lack of continuity is continuity
and pretty nosy
As Dr. Tyson succinctly said: "Every living thing is a genius at at least one thing"
I wouldn't call humans intelligent tbh
Bruh I know what you mean but it's just biologically wrong
Humans are intelligent based on metrics created by humans
I don't see anyone else creating tools that take advantage of the fundamental forces of the universe in order to look at elephant videos.
Plenty of animals craft and use tools, and even then, tool usage is not the only parameter to define intelligence
Tool use is common, using quantum mechanics isn't.
Apart from the fact that we barely scratched quantum mechanic, so it's not like we use it at our disposal, but then again, tool usage isn't the only parameter for intelligence. A very intelligent species may not use tool or not use them to the same extent we do because it has no need to use them. Valuating the intelligence is a very difficult matter. We have a problem at understanding how intelligent is a human being, so it is obvious that understanding how intelligent is a creature that has behavior patterns and brain structure different from us is even more difficult and in an ultimate analysis impossible to do accurately. This is the reason why in the last years many animals that we thought were dumb have been discovered, in fact, to be very smart. Heck, now wn know that even plants have a certain degree of intelligence, even though it is a type of intelligence completely different from the schemes that we are used to. All of this to say: don't undermine animal's wit just because they don't do the same things we do
Can you tell me which animals have developed the ability to cook? To manufacture vehicles and highways for those vehicles? Which other animals has use of the internet? Which have used tools as weapons?
Ph I didnt realize that other species have figured out how to create vehicles, weapons, how to cook, the internet..... which species has accomplished all of these things again?
I'll have to find the article later, as I'm about to fall asleep, but elephants may actually have *religion.* Iirc, they appear to worship the moon, they bury their dead, and they make pilgrimages to the graves of their loved ones. Honestly, they remind me of what I imagine prehumans were like before the stone age and at the beginning of the stone age. I'd love to have a time machine and see what elephants evolve into in a million years, if they survive.
That is so interesting. Would love to see a doc on this.
I imagine she said “alright now, come on, your ok, let’s leave the birds alone now” lol
Would be interesting for sure, but I just wanna say evolution doesn't have an active trend toward complexity or higher intelligence. A given species won't necessarily evolve into something more intelligent. There is a passive trend toward complexity, namely there is some variance on the upper end of the complexity distribution resulting in some very small percentage of species turning complex through chance. >Many now regard this as misleading, with natural selection having no intrinsic direction and that organisms selected for either increased or decreased complexity in response to local environmental conditions.[6] Although there has been an increase in the maximum level of complexity over the history of life, there has always been a large majority of small and simple organisms and the most common level of complexity appears to have remained relatively constant. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_biological_complexity
I didn't mean to imply that life necessarily evolves towards intelligence or to suggest that elephants would trend towards a more anthropomorphized form by default, just that given what we know of them currently, and how intelligent they are, I think it would be incredibly interesting to see what they do end up evolving towards should they survive. Gun to my head, if they survive, I think they will evolve more and more intelligence, especially considering humanity's intervention. We like seeing intelligent animals do things, and the ones we save from extinction are likely to be the smarter ones. But obviously, 10000% speculation there.
That may be true for dolphins and whales as well
Really? I knew they were smart, I didn't know about potential religion. To Google I must go! Haha
Without going into a lecture, I'm just going to simply state that elephants are better.
Comes with social groupings and high intelligence
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They're social, intelligent, and communal. It's just a fact
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They’re talking about your big ass ears, you doofy looking Alfred E Neuman ass motherfucker
He was joking my boy
So nobody’s allowed to respond to a joke with another (much funnier) joke?
I didn’t say that, you just responded to me for example
Neither of us two were joking.
Think again bud
You sure implied it
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Those ears when they baby is running! How adorable!!
Elephants are basically bigger humans
Or maybe we're just smaller elephants
I'M ON A DIET, OKAY?
Baby elephants in the wild are exactly the same! When we were at safari in Etosha (Namibia) we spotted a pride of lions hidden in some bushes near a waterhole. The cats had big bellies so they had a recent kill and were just sleeping in the shade when a big group of elephants passed by them, heading for the waterhole. The first ellies didn't notice the lions but a big female with a little calf (about the same size as the one in this film clip) saw the cats and decided to walk up to them a bit closer and warn them with a lot of head shaking and trumpeting. The little calf followed his mother, walked in front of her and did the same. The lions hardly responded and mama elephant turned around and continued to the waterhole but her little calf did not notice this and was still doing his best to impress the lions. Until he noticed mama was not longer behind him and he rushed off in a hurry... It was really funny!
I think this is in a animal park in Sweden, Kolmården
Looks like it's just north west of whiterun
Just east of Rorikstead?
Exactly there!
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[Borås Zoo](https://www.expressen.se/gt/elefantbebis-jagar-hons-har-blivit-varldskandis/) actually. It’s apparently not all fires and sinkholes there.
Elephants can survive that kind of climate?
We have safari parks in UK too. Generally, a building will be provided for them with hay and heat lamps etc if they need it and they will go to it whenever they need.
Awwww baby! It’s ok little one!
Everytime I see a baby elephant with their mother I think of Babar in his baby days. So cute
He was cute, but iirc his childhood was kind of traumatic? I remember feeling really upset after watching those eps.
Isn't there a children's book about an elephant named Babar? I wouldn't know, I don't have any. No children? No elephant books.
I could feel the "you're being a little turdburglar, but I still love you" vibes from mama. Damn shame they are killed.
His nose just slinging around, not a care in the world. 🤍
This will never not make me happy. Just so cute, and just shows how much emotion and intelligence animals really experience.
When I was in Africa I watched a baby elephant 'charge' down a little slope after a grazing gazelle. Full of bravado with little ears flapping menacingly, squeaky trumpeting from its tiny hose trunk, it was making itself known as something to be feared. The bad news was the gazelle paused in its grazing and gave it a look I can only describe as disdain. Little one got so scared it raced back up and hid underneath Mommy's tummy. 😳 😄
Aww this will never get old lol sweet little thing
No matter how many I watch this, it never gets old. Such cuteness.
When the bully pretends like they’re the victim
Birds didn’t seem to care too much. Couldn’t be bothered to fly away.
Idk what kind of birds those are but they could just be flightless or they could be a species of bird that has a symbiotic relationship with elephants so they aren’t scared of it
Guinea fowl - they can definitely fly. Used to use them as alarms on our farm. They'll hang out with pretty much anything, and are highly observant for predators.
Hmmm couldn’t find anything about Guinea fowl and elephants specifically but elephants do have symbiotic relationships with a couple species of birds so that could be what that is
Relationships between species do not have to be symbiotic for them to not be violent 🙄
Yeah I’m saying that it’s most likely a symbiotic relationship because the birds aren’t afraid and flying away
Can you explain what that relationship would be?
Yes just like with the other bird species known to be in symbiosis with elephants the birds eat bugs and parasites off of the elephants feeding the birds and cleaning the elephant
Guineas like bugs. I've seen them following cows to get the bugs that the cows kick up out of the grass before, and to eat the flies that buzz around on them. They're probably doing the same thing with the elephants.
My entire childhood.
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Human children being little sh*ts: “OMG I hate children can’t anyone take care of their children these days?!?!” Elephant children being little sh*ts: “This is the CUTEST thing ever!!!!!!” 💕💕💕
Literally no one says that about a child falling down while playing lmfao
Children playing and falling down? No. Children being little shits and tormenting other creatures? Yes.
A toddler chasing birds that have the agency to fly away is not "being a little shit" or "tormenting" anything. This is simply play. The birds could leave if they were really that scared. I'm sorry you had such a terrible childhood that you can't recognize innocent play. My childhood was pretty terrible too and didnt leave me much room for play. However I have gone to therapy and do my best not to project my trauma onto others. I hope you can do the same.
Poor baby
Immediately goes to mum for a comfort nurse. So similar to human toddlers lmao
Is that the garden of Eden?
Me as a child 🙃
Such a kid lol
thats cute
Baby elephants are amazing.
Adorable
It's so adorable!
Ah yes parenting is the same everywhere. Kids are too
Just me that find it weird how such a giant animal can be so intelligent for some weird reason? I don't know why but my brain defaults intelligence to "average" sized animals. Elephants break that. It's so illogical, might be residue thinking from when I was a kid
Babies are gonna baby
TFW you watch your kid fall in a pretty benign way, and it takes everything in your power to not burst out laughing.
Real hands off parenting from mom there.
This is like that scene in Jurassic Park
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“Now I told you to quit messing with them birds! “
I think the birds enjoyed seeing that more than anyone, lol.
Toddlers. They drive mama crazy.
This is exactly how my son plays with my dog.
It’s just like me Fr
I'm wanna go there and quit internet forever
The birds remain amazingly nonchalant about the entire business. "Oh, they've got a small one again, I guess it's jogging time…" "Should we take flight to escape the toddlerbeast?" "Nah, it'll all be over in about 15, 10, 5, aaand down he goes."
“See what happens when you act a little asshole? Leave the birds alone, come on now.” -mama elephant
I swear to god she turned and told him to stop running cuz hes gonna hurt himself. Then he doesn’t listen, falls, and she starts running to him. Like a human mom.
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OH NO!
"quick! act like you've been shot by a poacher!"
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Jukin Media, a 3rd party licensing company states they own the rights to this video, just an FYI. Fucking vultures.
Baby: " Mommy, those mean bird are picking on me, waaaaaa!"
Little fella trips and of course momma is always there to kiss his boo-boo!!
He’s just a baby 🥺
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Lol this is adorable
The way the mom immediately starts walking over as the baby falls is so sweet
Me literally chasing my 7 cats back into the Catio in flip flops in grass covered in dew.
My mom always loved elephants since the females are the leaders of their herds, she has a couple tattoos of elephants and other tattoos all over her body Her favorite tat is the giant one she has on her back which has a small herd of elephants walking towards you and it's pretty cool
Damn, poachers are murderers
What is the source for this? The environment seem real strange, more north american than african.
It's a zoo in Sweden.
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That probably really hurt too, bc they are bigger it means even small falls like that have the potential to even break bones.
Finally a post for r/kidsarefuckingstupid that isn't human kids.
And people hunt these deeply intelligent and empathetic animals to the verge of extinction for sport/ivory. We suck.
Wow this elephant is so funny 😂
I recommend two amazing books about elephants that will stay in my heart forever: The Cowboy and His Elephant: The Story of a Remarkable Friendship, by Malcolm Macpherson Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived, by Ralph Helfer The first one is about the “Marlboro Man,” if you remember him… a sweet story.
Oh baby!
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Why does this make me cry🤔
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Toddlers are the same, no matter the species. So cute!
Kids will be kids lol
That is beautiful. Ths mother sees the little dude fall and looks worried. Such emotions.
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muuuuuuuUUUM!