Mother Elephant Gives Up on a Twin to Save the Other from Lions

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  • Опубліковано 4 гру 2023
  • A weak and thirsty mother elephant with her newborn twins is forced to drink right next to a pride of lions. The lions go in for the hunt, but the mother doesn’t give up without a fight.
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    During an early morning safari in Chobe National Park, 63-year-old Desmond Clack, a seasoned tour guide, captured this unique scene. Desmond shared the footage and story with LatestSightings.com.
    “We set off at dawn, entering Chobe National Park at 6 a.m. in search of elephants, we headed to a remote watering hole inland, as we hadn’t seen any the night before along the river.”
    Upon arrival around 6:30 am, the first sight that greeted them was a pride of lions feasting on a young buffalo. "It was a special sighting, but what followed was extraordinary," Desmond recalls. Just then, a female elephant, accompanied by her twin calves-a rarity in itself-approached the watering hole. Seeing an elephant with twins is a very rare occurrence. It must have been very difficult for the mother elephant to take care of two tiny babies at the same time. She had to find enough food and water for both and keep them safe.
    "She was unaware of the lurking danger as she led her babies to quench their thirst. The mother elephant was desperate for water. The dry season had left few water sources, and this isolated waterhole was their only hope. Despite the risks, she had no choice but to lead her twins there. Suddenly, she realised the presence of the lions. The pride, having just fed, surprisingly turned their attention to the new arrivals."
    “The mother elephant realising the danger, tried to fend off the lions. The lions retreated but soon regrouped, and this time they encircled the mother and calves. In a bold move to fend them off, she charged at them, hoping to scare them away. This left her calves momentarily unguarded. It was during this critical moment that the lions seized the opportunity to attack. In the chaos, one of the calves tripped, and a male lion saw its chance. He pounced and grabbed it!”
    "The mother elephant rushed back, realising the danger to her other calf. In a frantic bid to save her offspring, she was torn between protecting the second calf or rescuing the first calf. She rushed at the lions that had grabbed the first calf, leaving the second exposed. The lions took this moment to go at the second calf. Luckily for it, the mother returned in time to save it. However, the first calf was not so lucky."
    The sighting ended with the mother elephant and her surviving calf escaping, leaving the lions and her first calf behind. At this point, Desmond stopped filming because it was just too sad. He couldn't keep watching as a little elephant was taken away from the mother, and she could do nothing but look on.
    "In such moments, it's best to understand the situation and remain quiet. Any noise can escalate the tension. It's the harsh reality of the circle of life."
    "To witness an elephant with twins was a first for me, and the unfolding events were both awe-inspiring and heart-wrenching. In the wild, every day is a fight for survival, and this sighting was a testament to the incredible strength and resilience of these majestic creatures."
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  • @nathi060200
    @nathi060200 4 місяці тому +137

    Imagine the sheer panic she felt, when she was suddenly surrounded. Poor mother.

  • @Lwah0812
    @Lwah0812 4 місяці тому +78

    Where was the elephants herd? It is rare for them to be alone. 💔😥

    • @alienOG-zh2xs
      @alienOG-zh2xs Місяць тому +12

      My first thought as well. Really dangerous out there for her two babies to not be with the herd.

    • @caraodoherty5940
      @caraodoherty5940 23 дні тому +2

      My understanding is sometimes their a out cast from the herd😢💔

    • @SameerPrehistorica
      @SameerPrehistorica 17 днів тому

      🙁

    • @joeybulford5266
      @joeybulford5266 9 днів тому +4

      If they can’t keep up the herd will leave them. And I bet with two babies she fell behind.

    • @sm9214
      @sm9214 2 дні тому

      Too many lions cornering to defend.

  • @cathimummery6873
    @cathimummery6873 4 місяці тому +76

    The poor mother elephant they are as sensitive as us bless her heart

  • @mayzes5847
    @mayzes5847 4 місяці тому +70

    amazing how difficult it was to even see that there were 2 baby elephants in the start

  • @reubencaldwell8494
    @reubencaldwell8494 5 місяців тому +179

    That's less of a sacrifice and more of a severely overwhelmed situation.

    • @tamarab6259
      @tamarab6259 5 місяців тому +11

      I agree! Wish her family had been around to help her surround the babies! I can't help but think, something must have been wrong, for her to be alone like that, taking a chance, drinking at a lion's watering hole?

    • @kmhasanrobin1896
      @kmhasanrobin1896 5 місяців тому

      ​@@tamarab6259❤q

    • @DianaBamaRN
      @DianaBamaRN 4 місяці тому +3

      @@tamarab6259Exactly what I commented! Very very unusual for such a new mom to be totally alone instead of amongst a herd of other females! For this and many other reasons!

    • @user-ql2pr5el3l
      @user-ql2pr5el3l 3 місяці тому

      Почему вы не помогли?????

    • @kirankanuganti5716
      @kirankanuganti5716 Місяць тому

      ​@@DianaBamaRNwhat are the other reasons

  • @the_sense
    @the_sense 5 місяців тому +257

    Having to choose to protect one of the two baby elephants is probably the mother elephant's most painful decision

    • @TheEyeOfBeardie
      @TheEyeOfBeardie 5 місяців тому +35

      She seemed inexperienced as a mother, which led her to making rash decisions on how to guard her calves. She didn't seemingly choose either, it's just that the baby elephant stumbled and got grabbed. If she went after the baby who she couldn't catch up to in the lion's jaws, she would also lose her other baby being flanked behind her.

    • @angel91485
      @angel91485 5 місяців тому +29

      I dont think it made a choice, she had no choice..the lionesses were everywhere

    • @lisajoyaslanis
      @lisajoyaslanis 5 місяців тому +4

      @@angel91485 Best answer....there seemed to be no choice.....
      Would we not. be forced to act accordingly, if in the sane situation??
      Lisa

    • @AdventureswithLandon
      @AdventureswithLandon 5 місяців тому +1

      True

    • @floram9853
      @floram9853 5 місяців тому +8

      Why are you alone, lions around you 😢

  • @NataliaMarquesa
    @NataliaMarquesa 5 місяців тому +65

    She didn't abandon none. She went to save him too and didn't give up. It's sad but she shouldn't have chased the lions. Poor mom and baby elephant. As a mother id die for mine.

    • @manbeard8678
      @manbeard8678 5 місяців тому

      Yup. Click bait BS. This channel used to be better.

    • @shihabmn
      @shihabmn 4 місяці тому

      She abandoned none...

    • @Mandrak789
      @Mandrak789 2 місяці тому +2

      for starters she should not bring two little ones straight into the lion pride, alone, that was totally careless of her; probably inexperienced first time mother

    • @stan5555
      @stan5555 Місяць тому +2

      ​@Mandrak789 its also possible the pride was out on a hunt already.

    • @SameerPrehistorica
      @SameerPrehistorica 17 днів тому

      👍

  • @killakam3600
    @killakam3600 4 місяці тому +92

    If you guys watch the last couple of seconds of the video you'll realize that she was going to try to rescue the first calf, but then the second one got grabbed so she had to give up on the first one. Just like the title of the video said.

    • @chelsm90
      @chelsm90 2 місяці тому +2

      If she goes back to the one being chewed on the other one will get caught just like first one

  • @Warbr33d
    @Warbr33d 5 місяців тому +387

    I don't think the mother did that, the baby elephant stumbled and they got it. The mother tried to retrieve it, but it was too late. There was no "surrender" or sacrifice here.

    • @nammoo89
      @nammoo89 5 місяців тому +5

      The cow "ran" away from them (3:15), the stumble didn't make any difference.

    • @hyvisthatcher4594
      @hyvisthatcher4594 5 місяців тому +2

      Couldn't really see it it's too small I couldn't make it bigger

    • @JustnCas3
      @JustnCas3 5 місяців тому +9

      The baby elephant tripped on a big rock. You can see it trip at 3:20

    • @what4165
      @what4165 5 місяців тому +19

      @@nammoo89 she didn't run away from it. She was chasing the lion.

    • @nammoo89
      @nammoo89 5 місяців тому +6

      @@what4165 One chases by running, and when an adult elephant runs, the calfs can't keep up, putting them in danger.

  • @user-hu7io5th8w
    @user-hu7io5th8w 4 місяці тому +29

    She shouldn’t be left alone with the babies! 😢

  • @Dc-kk9bd
    @Dc-kk9bd 5 місяців тому +27

    The mom will remember. She'll catch a couple lions in the future

  • @tommy7467
    @tommy7467 4 місяці тому +31

    3:40 nearly got the other baby too. Hopefully he can recover from the bite/scratches

    • @bradsanders407
      @bradsanders407 3 місяці тому

      The bites and scratches sure. The getting eaten is a different story.

  • @holisticpathwaystoyourheal679
    @holisticpathwaystoyourheal679 5 місяців тому +31

    Mama Elephant has a memory of Gold and she will get them back 😢

    • @peanuts6523
      @peanuts6523 Місяць тому +2

      She forget she even had two calves lmao, like seriously why go on chasing the lioness that far leaving her calves like 10 feets behind, the only reason she came to defend back was because the other calf made some noise.

    • @jackroberts416
      @jackroberts416 28 днів тому +1

      ​@peanuts6523
      Probably rage from the fact that her baby was eaten alive. I dunno....but that could be the reason.

    • @peanuts6523
      @peanuts6523 28 днів тому +1

      @@jackroberts416 the thing is she raged even before the baby was snatched, her rage towards the lions blinded her from seeing them taking the calf to be exact.

  • @dawncarson2279
    @dawncarson2279 5 місяців тому +21

    That's heartbreaking. Circle of life. 😢 That was a lot of lions.

    • @tamarab6259
      @tamarab6259 5 місяців тому

      Too many for her to take on & try to keep her eyes on all of them, plus keeping her babies protected.

  • @Supernova-lc2yf
    @Supernova-lc2yf 5 місяців тому +43

    Damn, im not even sure I want to watch this one, also didnt even know Eleohants could have more than one at once 😮

  • @bbpyb
    @bbpyb 5 місяців тому +75

    If only the mother had another adult elephant to help 😭

    • @joe1205
      @joe1205 5 місяців тому +28

      That's the trouble of being a single mum

    • @derrickrobinson7269
      @derrickrobinson7269 5 місяців тому +4

      ​@@joe1205Bruh 😅

    • @linphou5739
      @linphou5739 5 місяців тому +5

      That’s right and those people who film it did nothing just watching the lion eating other twin

    • @user-bx7tg1vy9r
      @user-bx7tg1vy9r 5 місяців тому +10

      Shes a strong independant elephant who need no male elephant

    • @shonelywilliams8303
      @shonelywilliams8303 5 місяців тому

      ​@@derrickrobinson7269...lol

  • @sifilore9462
    @sifilore9462 5 місяців тому +64

    The poor baby elephant had so much life in it to b taken so young. My heart goes out for the mother and only child-now.

    • @AS-li6rn
      @AS-li6rn 5 місяців тому +8

      😂😂😂😂

    • @floram9853
      @floram9853 5 місяців тому +3

      So sad 😢

    • @handzofstone1152
      @handzofstone1152 5 місяців тому

      @@AS-li6rnkys

    • @3winanimal
      @3winanimal 5 місяців тому +1

      Watching the prowess of the grizzly bear was awe-inspiring, however, is it right to be enthralled by such brute force?

    • @Yoteyawezekana
      @Yoteyawezekana 5 місяців тому +3

      U know what baby back ribs are?

  • @bryansmucker2642
    @bryansmucker2642 4 місяці тому +8

    I'm surprised she got this far away from the herd with two babies. The only time I've seen lions actually get a baby is when they are off by themselves like this

  • @Molaga
    @Molaga Місяць тому +3

    The saddest UA-cam video that I have ever seen. My heart is crushed.

  • @freeyoutubemusicthx4195
    @freeyoutubemusicthx4195 2 місяці тому +4

    “Don’t have to be faster than the lion, just faster than you bro”

  • @Seriously1922
    @Seriously1922 5 місяців тому +124

    I could not just sit and watch nature take it’s course.

    • @itonlyhurtswhenyoulie
      @itonlyhurtswhenyoulie 5 місяців тому +25

      Yeah, you'd become one with nature. The hard way.

    • @caraodoherty5940
      @caraodoherty5940 5 місяців тому +5

      Me too😢💔

    • @caraodoherty5940
      @caraodoherty5940 5 місяців тому +10

      ​@@itonlyhurtswhenyoulie
      I'd have to inter fear🐘❤️

    • @carolynmoore796
      @carolynmoore796 5 місяців тому +13

      I couldn't either. I would have driven my car to scare the lions even if I got in trouble. I didn't watch this to the end, I couldn't. Why do people want to see this. Knowing it happens is enough for me.

    • @jesuslikeslsdnwiid
      @jesuslikeslsdnwiid 5 місяців тому +23

      ​@@caraodoherty5940*saves baby elephant* meanwhile *3 lion Cubs starve to death*

  • @lordbottaro4549
    @lordbottaro4549 5 місяців тому +37

    Wasn’t sacrificed, it chased after a lion when it didn’t need to and the calf slipped whilst running away. The Mother also tried to save it.

    • @killakam3600
      @killakam3600 4 місяці тому +1

      That's where the sacrifice was. She tried and might have been able to save the first calf, but the second one got grabbed, so she had to give up her rescue attempt.

  • @natanyahubanyahsharal5734
    @natanyahubanyahsharal5734 5 місяців тому +3

    I'm not the type to say let nature takes it course for small animals. If they hungry they better team up on an adult 🐘. Had I been there I'm driving my car toward the Lions to free the baby elephant.

    • @barrosamuec3883
      @barrosamuec3883 4 місяці тому +2

      How would feel if later you found out that two baby lions died of starvation from your interference?

  • @theartsyzoologist
    @theartsyzoologist 5 місяців тому +38

    I’m somewhat desensitised to a lot of this/these natural occurrences or processes….but I will admit that was tough to watch. Also pretty incredible to see that lion just grab the calf which probably weighs around 90 - 100 kilograms with an ease and trot off into the scrub.
    It’s gutting to see, but knowing natures process of balance vs mercy…the potential likelihood of both calves surviving into the impending summer (for our side of the hemisphere)is naught. We will say “nature is brutal, “Fuck lions they are evil” or “Nature is too brutal, I can’t watch this” which yes, brutal it can be, but I also acknowledge that is also just our way of masking the raw unvarnished truth, because we have become so disconnected from nature and the planet that we find reality too confronting.
    Great footage team, once in a lifetime capture on that one!.

    • @chancegivens9390
      @chancegivens9390 5 місяців тому +1

      While it is sad that the mother lost her child, another way to look at it is that the lion gets to live another while.

    • @donniev8181
      @donniev8181 5 місяців тому +1

      Everything on our planet eats everything else, the sooner people get this through their minds the better. That being said, I chose not to watch the video because of this fact.

    • @3winanimal
      @3winanimal 5 місяців тому

      Watching the migration of monarch butterflies was a journey of transformation, however, should we be romanticizing their epic voyage?

    • @JarvoD
      @JarvoD 5 місяців тому

      Imagine having to eat babies alive in order to survive... Of course the lions don't think twice on it but damn... The universe is cruel and painful.

    • @santiagoprio2323
      @santiagoprio2323 2 місяці тому

      Na, i refuse. Fuck the lions

  • @Azraleah
    @Azraleah 3 місяці тому +29

    For the people who say "why didn't you people save the babies? 😠":
    This is nature. This is how nature works. This pride could easily have been starving for days and been desperate to eat a proper meal, even if they were already eating a young buffalo (that surely wouldn't have been enough for six adult/close to adult lions. Like it says in the description of the video "In the wild, every day is a fight for survival". Had the people scared off the pride, the lions might have starved and become weaker and the babies might have lived longer. Perhaps there was cubs hiding nearby that needed food as well. Perhaps the lionesses were pregnant and needed the sustenance for the growing cubs.
    And as the caption says, taking care of twins would surely have been difficult for the mother. Which means that, essentially by one calf dying, it increases the risks of survival for the other calf as well as the mother.

    • @bradsanders407
      @bradsanders407 3 місяці тому +1

      Literally no one is saying that.

    • @Azraleah
      @Azraleah 3 місяці тому +3

      @@bradsanders407 at the time I wrote this comment, yea, people were saying that. 🙂

    • @ossia1708
      @ossia1708 2 місяці тому

      not evil, simply born with sharper teeth. A balance of predation is actually good for the ecosystem and and prey species health as a whole.@@Beth-ds3mj

    • @rowds
      @rowds 2 місяці тому +4

      @@Beth-ds3mj You realise this has been going on for thousands and thousands of years? wild animals are NOT inherently good/evil..they just are. There is a food chain, like do you think mother nature doesn't know what it's doing? get a grip yikes.

    • @kiemugen9830
      @kiemugen9830 Місяць тому +2

      @@Beth-ds3mj when "evil" predators extinct for some reason, "good" grasseating animals grow in numbers and eventually just eat everything making terrain a wasteland, and then go extinct as well

  • @jiffysquid9
    @jiffysquid9 5 місяців тому +26

    I noticed from the start that one of the babies was smaller and weaker than the other, and that's the one they got.

  • @247selfcare
    @247selfcare 5 місяців тому +49

    I'm so thankful for the comments bc it saved me from watching a heartbreaking scene. thank you

    • @floram9853
      @floram9853 5 місяців тому +1

      Don't why she's alone

    • @3winanimal
      @3winanimal 5 місяців тому +2

      The survival tactics of the antelope were impressive, yet is it okay to be captivated by these natural battles?

    • @azmagaref
      @azmagaref 5 місяців тому +4

      What's so heart breaking here? How is this different from a zebra or a buffalo cub? This was a good watch.

    • @midnightstarr5413
      @midnightstarr5413 5 місяців тому

      ​@@azmagarefregardless of what animal is being eaten, you like watching a buffalo being eaten alive from ass end and having it's insides eaten out and still alive till the eat their way to the heart? What a joke you must present yourself to be. Must live a lonely existence

    • @Ransom...
      @Ransom... 5 місяців тому

      ​@@azmagarefwho asked

  • @BlessedYouTuber
    @BlessedYouTuber 5 місяців тому +72

    Clever lions. She had successfully protected both babies but the lions distracted her from her babies and they managed to grab one. Hadn’t she chased at that lion it would be different. Moving alone with babies to a waterhole is not the best thing to do.

    • @helenford3148
      @helenford3148 5 місяців тому +1

      So sad to see it happen and unable to do any thing. The lions and elephant seem oblivious to the jeep

    • @azmagaref
      @azmagaref 5 місяців тому +3

      @@helenford3148 McElelephant is good.

    • @tamarab6259
      @tamarab6259 5 місяців тому +10

      I think I heard one guy say, they were very small, perhaps just a day old? I wonder & makes sense, that she had recently given birth & was in the process of making her way back to the herd? Rare to see an elephant alone like this, esp. with 2 calves! 🤔

    • @brandonbrown9819
      @brandonbrown9819 5 місяців тому +1

      Very rare for a elephant with twins tbh they should have protected her but hey the lions had other plans

    • @tamarab6259
      @tamarab6259 5 місяців тому +2

      @@brandonbrown9819 They sure did! I'm guessing the lions were pretty hungry, to take on a mother elephant or maybe they saw this as an easy opportunity, being she had 2 calves to protect, instead of one, they thought they could get at least one, fairly easy, with no other elephants around to help? If that were me watching, I would've def. been firing warning shots at the lions, to scare them off, to give this new mother & her calves a chance to escape back to their herd!

  • @brendapelfrey4035
    @brendapelfrey4035 5 місяців тому +12

    Couldn't watch this! I know this happens but IF I'M THERE, I WOULD HELP! I can't imagine ANYONE watching this and not helping!

    • @igordias7324
      @igordias7324 5 місяців тому

      Ok

    • @urbrt2653
      @urbrt2653 5 місяців тому +2

      You're not suppose to interrupt nature. Lions gotta eat too. Get in the way of their meal and you will become their meal.

  • @cintronproductions9430
    @cintronproductions9430 5 місяців тому +22

    Damn, that lion just grabbed the wholeass baby elephant in its jaws and ran, how strong is his neck!? Even freshly born baby elephants are heavy.

    • @adonislimes6156
      @adonislimes6156 5 місяців тому +1

      New born elephants are only ~150-200lbs so no heavier than a good sized person.
      Thats nothing to a ~200kg Male lion.

    • @carlalaudicinaLFC
      @carlalaudicinaLFC 4 місяці тому +1

      Talk right

    • @deadguysuperstar
      @deadguysuperstar 4 місяці тому

      @@carlalaudicinaLFC It's becoming more common, I just try and ignore it

    • @Jadepapa
      @Jadepapa 4 місяці тому

      talkin about 160 pounds fresh out the womb

    • @jamesdavison8709
      @jamesdavison8709 4 місяці тому

      Look how small they are !

  • @AdventureswithLandon
    @AdventureswithLandon 5 місяців тому +53

    The way the Lion dragged the calf away was incredible.

    • @djnoy842
      @djnoy842 5 місяців тому +9

      A new born elephant is at least 200 pounds and that lion dragged and ran with it in its mouth

    • @AdventureswithLandon
      @AdventureswithLandon 5 місяців тому +30

      @@Beth-ds3mj you’re joking

    • @EileenTheCr0w
      @EileenTheCr0w 5 місяців тому +15

      ​@@Beth-ds3mjEven herbivores like deer will eat meat sometimes. A lion must eat meat to survive in the wild.

    • @pauldebillot
      @pauldebillot 5 місяців тому +7

      @@Beth-ds3mjclearly have not run the numbers on elephants currently over populating and destroying the greater Kruger area whereas our apex predators live an incredibly tough life - predator predation on anything they can try and catch has always existed

    • @1989elandy
      @1989elandy 5 місяців тому +1

      @@Beth-ds3mj Herbivores literally kill other animals too, sometimes just for fun. Hippos kill 500 people each year in Africa. They aren't the "good" animals. they're just wild animal just like predators.

  • @lioness2000
    @lioness2000 5 місяців тому +8

    Nature is both beautiful and cruel.

    • @lastlife.7532
      @lastlife.7532 4 місяці тому

      you are nature too baby human 🤣

  • @amcynic
    @amcynic 4 місяці тому +11

    Heartbreaking.

  • @forMERCED
    @forMERCED 5 місяців тому +8

    That's nature's way of keeping the balance, It's been going on this way since the beginning . It's only when man gets involved then there is chaos

    • @JarvoD
      @JarvoD 5 місяців тому

      🐂💩 🤣

    • @midnightstarr5413
      @midnightstarr5413 5 місяців тому +3

      Balance for the elephants was tipped way off when man started poaching them by the thousands.

    • @midnightstarr5413
      @midnightstarr5413 5 місяців тому

      So the elephants will be lucky to ever have enough of them to be able to be back in balance

    • @forMERCED
      @forMERCED 5 місяців тому +2

      @@midnightstarr5413 Sad but true, same goes for all of the other animals that are on the brink of extinction or that have gone extinct because of mankind

    • @midnightstarr5413
      @midnightstarr5413 5 місяців тому

      And THIS because of MANKIND not wanting to interfere with NATURE, is still keeping the balance off. I sure as heck don't see where that is of any help to that rule that they say they have to abide by

  • @isaacperez7136
    @isaacperez7136 5 місяців тому +6

    That's the circle of life in the animal kingdom.

    • @JarvoD
      @JarvoD 5 місяців тому

      What a beautiful world, gee it's so perfect one man God must have created it, because as you can see its perfect 🤣🤣

    • @donteto
      @donteto 4 місяці тому

      That's the flying spaghetti monster! ramen!@@JarvoD

  • @JaneDoe-em7zi
    @JaneDoe-em7zi 5 місяців тому +38

    Poor baby, she tried to save them both. This is the saddest thing I've ever seen. 😢💔

    • @yourmother_s
      @yourmother_s 5 місяців тому +10

      If this is the saddest thing you have ever seen, you may want to get your head out of your a$$ more often.

    • @Adam_U
      @Adam_U 4 місяці тому

      @@yourmother_s It costs nothing to not be a dick on the internet for no reason

    • @HananiYah-Shad
      @HananiYah-Shad 4 місяці тому +1

      😂😂😂😃

    • @user-qd4td7yb8e
      @user-qd4td7yb8e 3 місяці тому +3

      ​@@yourmother_s Extremely Rude. Reported.

    • @denyoellamcy8251
      @denyoellamcy8251 Місяць тому

      ​@@user-qd4td7yb8eTouch grass...Go outside..This is how nature works..The lions were starving for weeks ..They had every right to hunt this elephant and feed themselves

  • @Lofipassion573
    @Lofipassion573 5 місяців тому +22

    Nature is beautiful and brutal at the same time

  • @jenp5920
    @jenp5920 5 місяців тому +10

    She got scared, with that amount of lions they could have gotten her. Tried to scare off the one but the lot where right behind her. I hope with more experience she will learn to keep her calm and keep moving at an even pace.

    • @allvods1385
      @allvods1385 5 місяців тому +4

      I bet even 10 lions can't get her, she is just way too heavy and thick skinned. Also, she is really strong and could trample them with her feet. They stand back and avoid attacking her for a reason.

    • @killakam3600
      @killakam3600 4 місяці тому +2

      The mother was never in danger. A group of lioness that small had no other options but to go for the calf.

  • @elvampe13
    @elvampe13 6 днів тому

    Wow, that lion CARRIED the baby elephant away from the mother... that's incredible jaw strength.

  • @imaz2616
    @imaz2616 5 місяців тому +2

    We must give the lions credit they are masters of divide and conquer. The lions teaching their cubs well. They must eat too....

  • @donderstorm1845
    @donderstorm1845 5 місяців тому +35

    if she had stood her ground they couldn't have touched the baby, but they successfully baited her to chase them :(
    i'm curious, why is she alone? usually there's a herd protecting newborns?

    • @bradjohnson482
      @bradjohnson482 5 місяців тому +10

      Many animals will go off by themselves to give birth. I agree that the babies stood the best chance of survival by staying directly under their mother, but they're elephants ... not humans. I think that the lions got both of the babies, tbh.

    • @donderstorm1845
      @donderstorm1845 5 місяців тому +4

      @@bradjohnson482 yeah that's true. she was probably on her way back to the herd. short moment of vulnerability and lions were nearby :/

    • @eveningjaguar
      @eveningjaguar 5 місяців тому +6

      @@bradjohnson482Description says the sighting ended with the mother heading off with one calf perfectly alive. Unsure as to whether the lions would’ve tracked them down afterwards though

    • @LionDominator
      @LionDominator 5 місяців тому +1

      Kings have to eat

    • @GenericDan
      @GenericDan 5 місяців тому +11

      ​@@LionDominatorLions aren't kings. It's an oversized cat for crying out loud.

  • @Bromoteknada
    @Bromoteknada 5 місяців тому +6

    Latest Sightings , pls don't start clickbaiting , you 're one of the few ones left who don't!

  • @xmixaplix
    @xmixaplix 5 місяців тому +2

    Me: 🤔 the cameraman is the real villain here 👀

  • @b.k.3782
    @b.k.3782 5 місяців тому +2

    The way elephants would help another animal, incl. humans, instead of, say, filming... It's not just because they don't have phones. #WeAreTheCruelestAnimal

    • @vladik19990
      @vladik19990 3 місяці тому +1

      You can't help wild animals, it's forbidden

    • @bosmanragga51
      @bosmanragga51 3 місяці тому +1

      The purpose of filming is just solely to see how these animals live by themselves when humans are not present

  • @seanburnette1816
    @seanburnette1816 4 місяці тому +4

    Just waiting for the one idiot to comment "You shouldve helped how could you just film!!!"

    • @sanogoyuga
      @sanogoyuga 3 місяці тому

      Yeah, never understand this fools😂

  • @Bigpoppa00
    @Bigpoppa00 5 місяців тому +9

    I love how they are in Africa and see this happen and all go "oh no no no" I mean, what the hell did you expect? Lions and their prey having a tea party? Lol

    • @reynaldoflores4522
      @reynaldoflores4522 5 місяців тому

      Those tourists paid a hefty price to see exactly what they saw.

    • @somerandomperson8282
      @somerandomperson8282 4 місяці тому

      @Bigpoppa00 are you so lacking in basic empathy and IQ that you don't understand how watching such harsh things provokes an emotional reaction?

  • @Gunnson
    @Gunnson 4 місяці тому +1

    "thoughts and prayers" would be the typical reaction in some parts of the world

  • @abody499
    @abody499 5 місяців тому +557

    she didnt surrender any of them at all. she made a mistake chasing a lion, combined with one of them falling over trying to keep up. it was just the way it played out.

    • @Kreutz
      @Kreutz 5 місяців тому +56

      They screw with the titles every video for clicks

    • @TransKidsMafia
      @TransKidsMafia 5 місяців тому +22

      One of the twins was trans and the lions are transphobes. That’s what happened.

    • @willek1335
      @willek1335 5 місяців тому +11

      Good thing no one said surrender. She literally GAVE UP the first, to save the other, precisely as the title.
      Reminder, it's an animal - not the main human character in a movie. Christ :D

    • @Sigma_Male_Anti_Female
      @Sigma_Male_Anti_Female 5 місяців тому +24

      ​@@TransKidsMafia Wtf

    • @Alexus095
      @Alexus095 5 місяців тому +9

      she could have tried to run after the lion, and obviously she would have were it not for the second twin. So in a way she did give him up, although you're right in the sense that the title makes it sound more treacherous than it is.

  • @Justwantedaname
    @Justwantedaname 5 місяців тому +5

    Wheres the herd? Why is she alone

  • @MERCYLIFE
    @MERCYLIFE 4 місяці тому +10

    She was not going to be able to protect them solo… they would have all perished in the end if one had not made a sacrifice… this is real nature and not cruel but their way of survival… she is definitely feeling the loss as all mothers in nature do but she also understands that her will to live and protect are the same for other creatures…❤

    • @MERCYLIFE
      @MERCYLIFE 4 місяці тому

      And to clarify…. No I do not believe animals or at least all of them think like humans… I don’t think she was planning ways to build barriers other than using herself the best way she knew how… but we have to remember all animals have a drive to survive and that momma will love her child regardless… we see cruelty but they see everyday life and the struggle to survive… we need to protect nature by allowing it to be itself and stop interfering bc we “feel” the need to fix it… it doesn’t need fixed but just us doing our best not to destroy it ourselves… ❤️❤️

  • @mikolapoltavskiy2807
    @mikolapoltavskiy2807 5 місяців тому +3

    Браконьеры убивают слонов из за бивней и они плохие. А те кто не вмешивается и просто смотрит как львы убивают слонят хорошие? Человек виновен в том, что численность слонов уменьшилась, и он обязан помочь её восстановить.

  • @talmankk564
    @talmankk564 4 місяці тому +1

    this is like modern day raptors vs sauropods

  • @user-nw1je1ur6t
    @user-nw1je1ur6t 5 місяців тому +17

    As always, dont outrun the lions, outrun the baby

  • @myleschada-grant1074
    @myleschada-grant1074 5 місяців тому +30

    Wow. It’s pretty rare for an elephant cow to give birth to twin calves!

    • @floram9853
      @floram9853 5 місяців тому +2

      My first time seeing Twins Birth

    • @myleschada-grant1074
      @myleschada-grant1074 5 місяців тому +1

      @@floram9853 Yeah same!

    • @Tdcsd
      @Tdcsd 5 місяців тому

      Same

    • @broadcastHim
      @broadcastHim 5 місяців тому +5

      I would have intervened because of that reason alone!! 🤬

    • @tamarab6259
      @tamarab6259 5 місяців тому +2

      Same here too!

  • @snippy8315
    @snippy8315 5 місяців тому +1

    Getting to actually hear an elephant trumpeting like that must be a surreal experience.

    • @reynaldoflores4522
      @reynaldoflores4522 5 місяців тому

      Heck. In the zoo in my hometown they trumpet all day

    • @snippy8315
      @snippy8315 4 місяці тому

      @@reynaldoflores4522 no kidding! I thought it was a defensive tactic. Do they randomly do it just because or do they train them to do it on command?

    • @reynaldoflores4522
      @reynaldoflores4522 4 місяці тому

      @@snippy8315 They don't " train them to follow commands " in zoos. You're thinking of circuses.

  • @nenala7684
    @nenala7684 5 місяців тому +3

    Wow survival of the FITTEST! the baby could not keep up with the other 😢

  • @eazypeazy2964
    @eazypeazy2964 5 місяців тому +45

    There're so many videos of animals which usually move in herds being caught out alone like this, I wonder how they came to be by themselves? Especially when they don't look or act sick/old at all.

    • @fillfinish7302
      @fillfinish7302 5 місяців тому +15

      Elephants choose to give birth alone

    • @lisajoyaslanis
      @lisajoyaslanis 5 місяців тому

      @@fillfinish7302 Right!

    • @floram9853
      @floram9853 5 місяців тому

      I wonder why?
      Why she's alone

    • @floram9853
      @floram9853 5 місяців тому +4

      Help her not filming 😮

    • @3winanimal
      @3winanimal 5 місяців тому +1

      Watching the co-operation of a dolphin pod was inspiring, however, should we be romanticizing their social structure?

  • @user-zd2ve6ry1k
    @user-zd2ve6ry1k 4 місяці тому +3

    Just like I knew everything that happens somebody knows about it somehow so I don't worry nobody gets away a Mother's Love for her family always known on an off the camera

  • @klashinkov
    @klashinkov 4 місяці тому +19

    Damn....I know we aren't supposed to interfere with mother nature, but I would have just this one time. This made me sad, meh 😢

    • @spiralrose
      @spiralrose 4 місяці тому

      Humans interfere with nature to the detriment of animals all the time, so there’s no shame and interfering for something like this.
      The lions would’ve caught another meal

    • @Twon2rawww
      @Twon2rawww 4 місяці тому +2

      and you wouldve ruined the lions meal and they would go hungry, meaning there cubs wont get to eat because the mother needs meat to keep her milk supply strong and without it, her milk would dry, and her cubs would starve

  • @kaz9781
    @kaz9781 4 місяці тому +1

    Lions are very crafty they went for the right opening then proceed

  • @martinsks.a8434
    @martinsks.a8434 5 місяців тому +5

    Why was she there all alone with these tiny cubs ?

  • @MajesticHF
    @MajesticHF 4 місяці тому +4

    Inexperienced mother. Almost lost both babies in a single day

    • @Mandrak789
      @Mandrak789 2 місяці тому

      She might have lost the other one as well, lions won't miss an oportunity for two easy meals

  • @jeromlol
    @jeromlol 4 місяці тому +1

    I'm all for not interfering with nature, but i can't help but think these people being so close, making noises etc. Is also interfering

  • @danstrack4827
    @danstrack4827 4 місяці тому +1

    Guys, I think the tile eludes to the ending.. I believe it was more of her maternal drive to protect that made her almost lose the other one. Not being in her heard she simply cannot protect the 2.

  • @lizardninja007
    @lizardninja007 5 місяців тому +3

    It's always the runt that gets it.

  • @mandlas.4305
    @mandlas.4305 4 місяці тому +3

    Shame. That mother was definitely outnumbered and with twins on top of that.

  • @raycharleson4167
    @raycharleson4167 4 місяці тому +1

    Aren't you glad you are not on the bottom of the food chain anymore lol 😂

  • @teresadixon4897
    @teresadixon4897 5 місяців тому +2

    How can you sit there and watch that happen ? Do something...... I would never allow that happen

  • @chiemekaa
    @chiemekaa 5 місяців тому +3

    I don't know if those elephants were twins, but one was clearly smaller than the other and unfortunately became the sacrifice.

    • @jamesdavison8709
      @jamesdavison8709 4 місяці тому

      They were twins, it said so on the title of the video.

  • @user-so9cb5me9d
    @user-so9cb5me9d 4 місяці тому +3

    Shame on all the people filming this rather than make noise or try to help the Elephants. God will remember this.

    • @fordaculture5014
      @fordaculture5014 4 місяці тому

      Them lions have cubs to feed. These are all "God's" "creatures"

    • @user-hj9iz4dp9q
      @user-hj9iz4dp9q 3 місяці тому

      Every one thinks God is so great but look at how fucked up the world is I think God likes this stuff otherwise he wouldn't have made things like this.

    • @quransunnah750
      @quransunnah750 3 місяці тому

      God is different from us in thinking, acting and feeling and form. He does what he will so better accept and magnify him

    • @achrafrouaiguia7998
      @achrafrouaiguia7998 3 місяці тому

      ​@@user-hj9iz4dp9q الدنيا هي دار اختبار لن يرتاح أحد فينا إنسانا كان أو حيوان الا في الجنة سيحدث ذلك

  • @krishnantap6813
    @krishnantap6813 4 місяці тому +1

    My heart burst out after seeing this. Can't understand nature. The prey is invariably a herbivorous animal if it means the prey has to be eaten. A herbivirous animal kills a predator only out of fear and for self protection. Therefire when ever i see a predator getting killed, stomped and crushed, i feel it paid a price for being very bad, no matter that nature has created the predator in such a way.

  • @okapi7559
    @okapi7559 4 місяці тому +2

    The worst is that that baby was eaten just because it tripped. I wonder if the mother would be able to protect both. It's also a shame that she was alone and not with the rest of the family. The herd would've been able to help her keep the twins alive. It's a shame, but at least the lions get to eat.

  • @chiragdarji1571
    @chiragdarji1571 5 місяців тому +3

    this is so sad.. I dont think I could see the rest of it despite it being nature.. why is the mother elephant alone with her two calves.. where is the rest of the herd 😢

  • @DV-zv4ox
    @DV-zv4ox 5 місяців тому +10

    I feel sorry for the mama elephant, but it's so important that the predators like lions are fed and have a healthy population.

    • @lisajoyaslanis
      @lisajoyaslanis 5 місяців тому +2

      COLD.........

    • @DV-zv4ox
      @DV-zv4ox 5 місяців тому +4

      @@lisajoyaslanis this is not the disney channel, Lisa !

  • @tezzymurphy8730
    @tezzymurphy8730 5 місяців тому +2

    Makes one wonder where the herd of elephants were. Mother's usually stick to a herd for protection. Sad one had to be taken out. Strength in numbers does help.

  • @caraodoherty5940
    @caraodoherty5940 5 місяців тому +1

    Beautiful mama lost a part of her heart forever and the precious beautiful baby twin lost their brother/sister forever😢💔RIP Precious beautiful baby❤️

  • @neilarcher2551
    @neilarcher2551 5 місяців тому +5

    It seems they actually got both. First to the left when she charged and then to the right at the end when she tried to get other calf back. Might need to look at it on a bigger screen to be sure.

  • @complexblackness
    @complexblackness 5 місяців тому +5

    I used to think that stumbling or tripping when facing danger was Hollywood. Until I seen it happen in real life and even in nature.
    You have animals who make a crucial mistake and it cost them. Little homie tripped at the worse moment.
    You can't make this stuff up.

  • @lebronmother1858
    @lebronmother1858 5 місяців тому +2

    lions got 1 of the 2 twin the mother did not give it up the lions got it it wasnt the mothers choice

  • @RDUKA_13
    @RDUKA_13 5 місяців тому +2

    Help the elephant 🐘

  • @righteousone1
    @righteousone1 5 місяців тому +5

    Why was she alone without the herd?

    • @BoskiM
      @BoskiM 5 місяців тому

      It's a mother's responsibility to look for food for her kids. The male steering the herd doesn't have time for those left behind

    • @TheEyeOfBeardie
      @TheEyeOfBeardie 5 місяців тому +2

      Are you an idiot, elephants are a matriarchy and male elephants are casted out once they reach sub-adulthood.@@BoskiM

    • @An_Actual_Rat
      @An_Actual_Rat 5 місяців тому +1

      Elephants are matriarchal...

    • @righteousone1
      @righteousone1 5 місяців тому +1

      @@BoskiM You got problems.

    • @BoskiM
      @BoskiM 5 місяців тому

      @@righteousone1 I am referring to animals in this case elephants and not humans

  • @cmethrough9
    @cmethrough9 5 місяців тому +5

    It's heartbreaking. Makes you want to reach through the screen and do something to help chase them off. But I understand it's nature and that's one of their food sources.

    • @enfp-life7668
      @enfp-life7668 5 місяців тому

      Look how malnourished and skinny the mom looked… due to the droughts.. I don’t think the twins had much time left.. it was either starving or being eaten then and there.

  • @firstname7490
    @firstname7490 5 місяців тому

    I have never seen a elephant with more than one baby.

  • @pmcate2
    @pmcate2 4 місяці тому

    Misleading title. She didn't give up. The other lions snuck in while she was distracted.

  • @nub3003
    @nub3003 5 місяців тому +5

    Sad af

  • @NightfuryVulture
    @NightfuryVulture 5 місяців тому +107

    This is actually nature. Sad but nothing we can do. It’s the circle of life.

    • @jackattack1993
      @jackattack1993 5 місяців тому +14

      Technically there is something they could do. However they shouldnt. It is nature and the lions also need to eat.

    • @dyates6380
      @dyates6380 5 місяців тому

      You literally posted what I was going to post. Yes, sad, but raw nature.

    • @NotSlowAndStillSteady
      @NotSlowAndStillSteady 5 місяців тому +19

      Same old comment everytime we see a predator make a kill.. It is nature, blah blah blah ..
      Cringe AF

    • @coriT16
      @coriT16 5 місяців тому +1

      ​@@NotSlowAndStillSteadydont check the comments problem solved

    • @louisluckenson1036
      @louisluckenson1036 5 місяців тому

      ​ 3:41 3:41 ❤ 😊😢. £ v😂😂

  • @terrelleraider5295
    @terrelleraider5295 4 місяці тому +1

    Honestly, the elephant made a bad mistaken by walking towards that many lions with her both of her babies .Lions just couldn’t pass up on a golden opportunity, very easy meal !

  • @midnightstarr5413
    @midnightstarr5413 5 місяців тому +1

    I believe in being at the right place at right time if intervention is in call. Like stepping in and helping the twins. Are elephants so plentiful now that we can just watch them die at any time? Won't, not can't, but won't step in to turn tables around to help animals in need? So what that its nature. Just because its wild nature and its what nature does, does that make it justifiable to just sit back and let nature take course, when im sure poaching has taken a heavy toll on elephant population as it is, that we cant step in to help? They werent skinny and starving lions. Pretty healthy. Id still of said " not on my watch today. Something wrong in stepping in? Something wrong with helping out sometimes ? I could argue that twins born is so one can live and other food for others. But im not that callus. I wonder what the elephants think about us watching when one of theirs is being under attack , specially their baby's. You think that they see you just sitting there and not helping to ward off lions? Maybe their attitude towards people would be more pleasurable instead of a lone mother fighting for her baby's life while humans just sit by and watch. Id sure as hell not like humans to come anywhere near me if thats all they do is watch my babys being attacked and not lift a finger to help? You think that strangers that stepped in to save someone's life or a animals life , wonders about the consequences of stepping in? Maybe something like, " well if i save this person from a sure drowning because they look like they are too tired to keep afloat, will me stepping in somehow change my course and that person course of life? Maybe ill just turn my head and not look and let life take its course

  • @Hyuugagirl21
    @Hyuugagirl21 5 місяців тому +7

    Imagine nature being nature, and humans having a hard time accepting that this is literally what happens in actual real life nature and NOT edited TV shows.

    • @midnightstarr5413
      @midnightstarr5413 5 місяців тому +2

      Here's where you and I differ from your point of view, and my point of view. I have a heart. End of story

    • @barrosamuec3883
      @barrosamuec3883 5 місяців тому +3

      ​@@midnightstarr5413How do you suggest the lion survive without eating?

    • @midnightstarr5413
      @midnightstarr5413 5 місяців тому +1

      @@barrosamuec3883 plenty fish in the sea

    • @barrosamuec3883
      @barrosamuec3883 4 місяці тому +4

      ​@@midnightstarr5413Absolutely clueless statement.

    • @midnightstarr5413
      @midnightstarr5413 4 місяці тому +3

      @@barrosamuec3883 Ditto

  • @johnpatrick2337
    @johnpatrick2337 4 місяці тому +5

    Unity is strength and it's seen just in lions, hyenas and wild dogs, rarely in other animals.

    • @lastoutlaw3882
      @lastoutlaw3882 4 місяці тому

      What the fuck? Lions are not a king if they can't tackle single handedly one adult elephant rhino hippo or nile crocodiles

    • @johnpatrick2337
      @johnpatrick2337 4 місяці тому

      Actually, lions only become strong when they know how to be solidarity, then they are the king of the jungle.

    • @zigzung5569
      @zigzung5569 4 місяці тому

      ​@@johnpatrick2337From wolves to killer whales to ants, there are many animals who hunt and kill in packs.

    • @Crash8448
      @Crash8448 4 місяці тому

      @@lastoutlaw3882 it’s not the strength that makes them the king. It’s the mindset.

    • @Vezben
      @Vezben Місяць тому

      ​@@lastoutlaw3882It's the mindset which make them kings which you'll never have

  • @marymwangi192
    @marymwangi192 5 місяців тому +1

    It takes a village to raise children. It's so even in the wild. This mother shouldn't have been alone. It was an overwhelming situation. And sad that guys just watched and filmed. .

  • @enfp-life7668
    @enfp-life7668 5 місяців тому +1

    You guys are trippin saying to “intervene” because elephant babies r so cutez.
    The elephant babies were probably as good as dead anyway. Look how skinny and sickly the mom looked, she clearly could not rationalize and think straight protecting her babies. Even in the description it says they been struggling with a drought, and the herd they were with probably separated with them due to the mother unable to keep up with the herd and keeping up providing milk for TWO babies, where 1 is enough.
    I’m pretty sure the lions did it a favour and put the babies out of their struggle. Be happy that the lions got something to eat out of it.
    Also look up the video elephant kill lion cubs. Elephants can be assholes too, you can pick a favourite in nature, nature takes it place. Who knows, maybe the other baby survived and if grows up hating on lions and killing their cubs in spite of losing its twin, since “elephants never forget”

  • @TheEnigmaticDeenTruth
    @TheEnigmaticDeenTruth 5 місяців тому +3

    Tuff one right there 😮

  • @sanjivroy8941
    @sanjivroy8941 5 місяців тому +8

    Where is the herd or atleast few adolescent eles ?

    • @thepowerfulwolfspirit.2581
      @thepowerfulwolfspirit.2581 5 місяців тому +4

      That’s what I was thinking too, a lone elephant can be vulnerable especially with calves.

  • @jennie2921
    @jennie2921 5 місяців тому

    Im 65 loved elephants for as long as i can remember. Spent 2 hours at the zoo watching one toss a huge tree trunk they tossed in with it.

    • @jennie2921
      @jennie2921 5 місяців тому

      I dont care made up or not as long as the elephant survived.

  • @DinkLover69
    @DinkLover69 5 місяців тому +1

    I thought elephants were suppose to be smart. She walked her babies right up too them. :|

  • @BabyMommaJess3
    @BabyMommaJess3 4 місяці тому +3

    How can people just sit and record anything like this? It's sad poor mother and baby

  • @natebrehmer663
    @natebrehmer663 5 місяців тому +4

    I think it's safe to say there are lessons to be learned here metaphorically. In life it's important to stay with the herd, or the pride for that matter bc lion or elephant, when we're on our own.. We're not as a strong as when we're together.
    United we stand, divided we fall.

  • @sanogoyuga
    @sanogoyuga 5 місяців тому +2

    If she wasn't alone, this youngsters would never try something like this, elephant were dangerous prey but alone a mother and her calf are easy target. Usualy elephant don't really go far away their group even to give birth they stay close to each other, i don't know how this mother end like this but just hope his herd arrive and save her and the last young. Even the giant were vulnerable sometimes😔

  • @Lorraine6330
    @Lorraine6330 5 місяців тому +1

    I know there say it's nature but the camera men could of stopped this and the twine baby elephant would of lived 😢