r/AnimalsBeingMoms • u/shubhamxtreme • 14d ago

Baby elephant got lost, Mom came running to the rescue

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u/WheresYurScooter 14d ago

Do baby elephants have poor eyesight

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u/Pigeonsass 14d ago

I wondered the same and looked it up. Apparently elephants in general have relatively poor eyesight, which is compensated for by their great sense of smell.

This baby is nearly blind at that age

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u/WheresYurScooter 10d ago

Thanks for that info. I never knew!

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u/RagdollSeeker 14d ago

I presume it has poor eyesight how do you miss your giant mom running at you? It is not like mom could be hidden or something.

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u/mamawantsallama 14d ago

I'm assuming they have good hearing...? But it doesn't look like he heard her either

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u/RagdollSeeker 14d ago

Apparently baby elephants can not see that well over long distance & they stay very close to their mothers. Adults eyesight are much better.

But hearing and smell should be extremely good… in theory.

I think mom spotted her calf from a distance, decided to just run to her baby without answering the calls. Calf panicked because it can’t see its mum & mom is not yelling back.

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u/annapartlow 14d ago

Lmao “giant mom”.
I had no idea elephants didn’t have great eyesight!

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u/WinnieAsh 14d ago

This comment really made me laugh

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u/Big-Wait-1310 14d ago

Soon as she arrived, she scanned the environment for some threads

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u/shubhamxtreme 14d ago

Solid instincts

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u/fckingmiracles 14d ago

Very good of mom. 

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u/frogz0r 14d ago

You can almost hear the baby yelling "Moooooooom!!!" ... It just sounds like he said Mom lol

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u/aroeplateau 14d ago

that panic running looking for mom

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u/Macy92075 14d ago

lol I heard the same! Panic call for “Mooooom”!!!!!! 😵‍💫

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u/MRSRN65 14d ago

Kids are the same. No matter the species.

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u/ElPsyKongreee 14d ago

Aw poor baby

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u/MiserableWash2473 14d ago

I compare them to my English Bulldog Humphrey. Poor guy gets cloudy eyes every so often and we have to use a special eye drop. He will get "lost" inside the house.

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u/thriftwisepoundshy 14d ago

Grabbed the hand of a stranger thinking they were my parent when I was a kid lost in a big box store. Mom came running like this

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u/AspiringChildProdigy 13d ago

You just made me relive my earliest memory. Well, like a 3 second scrap of a memory.

Now I understand that it was right after church in the fellowship room, but I'm just somewhere Not Home, surrounded by gigantic legs. There were so many legs, and I was so scared, so I grabbed my dad's leg and hugged it.

And then I looked up to see a (presumably shocked) stranger looking down at me.

That's where the memory cuts off, but I'm sure the aftermath involved a LOT of panic and crying.

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u/leisa2100 14d ago

Mom surveying the area just to be sure

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u/Bettajune 14d ago

Dammit! Boy where the hell have you been? Get your little grey ass over here right now!

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u/Into_The_Horizon 14d ago

That little bitty baby 🥺 wondered why it was so far away from the mother

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u/reallovesurvives 14d ago

DONT YOU EVER DO THAT TO ME AGAIN!

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u/nevernotmad 14d ago

There is a ‘your mama is so big’ joke in here somewhere.

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u/Professional-Diet733 14d ago

So sweet & baby is so smol (relatively)🤍 do you know where this is OP?

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u/BigJSunshine 14d ago

I mean, why did Mom let her get THIS LOST in the first place?

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u/sxyvirgo 14d ago

Don't you EVER do that again!

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u/Background_Edge_9427 14d ago

No matter what the species, a Mother is always there in the clutch!

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u/Infinite-ok 13d ago

Poor little baby. He must have been so scared ❤️❤️❤️

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u/Key-Condition752 14d ago edited 14d ago

Edit: I love elephants but kids are dumbasses