Baby elephant!

[ridesandruns]

When the going gets tough, the tough (or in my case, the neurotic and anxiety-riddled) indulge in news stories about baby elephants! With video!

I adore elephants. I was appalled to learn that they routinely kick their newborns to make them stand up, but then it occurred to me that if I'd been pregnant for the better part of two damn years my

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[wal_lace]

I'm pretty certain baby elephants are the most easily anthropomorphised animals in the world. They're big and they're intelligent and they're really, really, cute. And some of them, when they want a human's attention, they reach out and grab him with their trunk.

This one clearly ain't up to the grabbing people stage, but I bet he grows up pushy.

[ridesandruns]

I bet you're right. He's itty-bitty right now, and even so, he's almost 300 lbs. I wouldn't want a 300-lb. something grabbing/shoving me, no matter how cute it was.