The image of the elephant carrying a lion cub with its trunk was created by kruger national park and shared to the south africa organization s official twitter account kruger sightings on april.
Elephant carry its baby.
A baby elephant is called a calf.
And alarmingly it appears that thousands of those actually thought the photo was real.
The below photo is spreading with the caption that the elephant saw the struggling cub and carried it to a pool of water as per the example below.
Calves can t see very well at first but they can recognize their mothers by touch scent and sound.
It weighs about 250 pounds at birth and stands about three feet tall.
Funeral procession of the weeping elephants carrying dead body of the child elephant.
During this time they are mostly able to carry out their usual tasks and duties without interruption though there is some evidence that a herd will travel with a pregnant cow in the middle to protect her from anything that might think they can take advantage of her reduced speed and agility.
A photo appears to show an elephant carrying an exhausted young lion cub in its trunk to water accompanied by the cub s mother.
It shows an elephant carrying a lion cub in its trunk as a lioness walks alongside.
Some suggested a movie should be made based on the scene and others remarked on how amazing nature is.
The family just don t want to leave the baby behind it is not known how the calf died.
She carries it for a long time so it can develop fully and it ll like most wild animals be able to stand on its own on day 1.
It weighs about 250 pounds at birth and stands about three feet tall.
Elephants have the longest gestation period in nature and carry their young inside them for nearly two full years.
It was considered the best photo of this century.
A viral photograph shared more than a hundred thousand times recently resurfaced on social media.
It s cute but it s a hoax this photo has been shared hundreds of thousands of times on social networks this week with a caption explaining that it shows an elephant helping a mother lion by.
The asian elephant carries for 645 days generally and the african elephant bigger ears carries for 640 days.
Its takes three years for an elephant to have a baby because an elephants skin is so thick that it takes that long for the baby to take moisture out.