Pool Time with Baby Elephant Phabeni and Adine! 

Such positive signs of Phabeni bonding closely w/Adine, which def'ly is helping him heal emotionally, get thru his grieving...Precious Phabeni, you can tell he has a very tender heart... 💞 🐘 💞

I saw the smile too.

Between that and his little flapping ears, I'm 😍😆

Yes he was smiling ❤

Yes he is becoming very fond of Adine Looks like he will be emotionally out of the woods very soon❤ Wonderful to witness him making so much progress. Adine I love watching him interact with you.

IT would be nice to see Phabeni get in the pool ore in a bathtub😅❤

I agree. So sweet 💙🐘💙🙏

❤💕

Amen 💙🐘💙🙏🙏

Amen to that. Well said.😊

He is so cute with his little trunk !

Ben detto!

I know, so glamorous! I need the name of her manicurist, my nail polish chips in a day, she's been digging in mud, pulling bark off branches and playing in water and her nails are still fabulous!

Thanks for your donation.

I don't know for sure, but I suspect they also flap their ears, like dogs do their tails - to show part of their emotions - to show anger and happiness, and other emotions. Just like a dog does by wagging their tail, holding it up or tucking it down between their legs - and emotional weather vane.

The ears are typically used only for thermal regulation. They can be used to communicate emotions but that’s only for threat displays. When an elephant feels threatened, they will stand the ears out and raise their heads to look bigger to a potential threat. In the rare case that doesn’t work, the ears are folded back and the head is lowered before an actual charge. Emotions are typically displayed by other body language eg walking backwards towards another elephant can show an attempt to be friendly or to appear submissive, head butting to show playfulness, feistiness, wanting to be left alone or angry. Trunks and trunk gestures can be used in a wide variety of ways to show emotions too. Mothers and allomothers are constantly touching babies to show love and care, elephants will often touch each other all through the day (their love language is touch, as the video says). Trunks can be put in other elephant’s mouths, trunks can be intertwined, babies will sometimes hold on to the tail of the mother with their trunk as they walk, much like human children will hold a parent's hand. Emotions are also, of course, displayed by vocalization. An excellent free resource to learn about this is the Elephant Ethogram (ethography is the study of behavior) website that compiles many different elephant behaviors based on decades of observations of African Savannah (ie like the HERD eles) elephants. happy reading!

@@voiciray Thank you for the tip for more information. In the mid-1970s when I was a teenager I volunteered at the Portland Zoological Research Center (now the Oregon Zoo) and one of my projects was to develop elephant-related questions and answers for an interactive game that zoo visitors could play at the elephant exhibit. How I wish such things would have been available back then! There were only one or two decent books on elephants at the library at the time!

Cara Dorothy, è giusto ciò che dici, traduco sempre i tuoi pensieri perché mi fanno capire...! Ti Auguro un Buon Anno 2024 che sia migliore per te e per tutto il mondo, grazie!

@@vivianaiacomelli3080 Thank you Viviana for your sweet words of kindness. I also wish you a Happy New Year 💥💥. I hope we can have world peace also because right now this world is a very scary place and our Country is under siege. I hope that 2024 will be a better year for everyone.

Buon anno cara Dorothy, grazie delle belle parole ma non le merito sono le 9,34 lunedi primo giorno 2024 io sono italiana chiaro, ma tu in che stato abiti? Ciao e buon Anno.😗🫠🤗😇

@@vivianaiacomelli3080 Happy New Year Viviana. It is 8:57 am New Years day. Everyone deserves to have kind words said to them. I am of Italian heritage also. I live in the USA in the State of Florida. Wishing you a very Happy New Year in 2024 as 2023 was the year from hell. Watching the Jabulani HERD 🐘 is my outlet. I am so thankful for them and all of the elephants 🐘. I visited them in 2021. I wish I could go again but now that I am retired and live on a fixed income I don't think that will happen. I hope you have a healthy and happy 2024 ❤️

Cara Dorothy ho tradotto tutto il tuo discorso, speriamo bene per tutta l'umanità insieme a tutti gli animalini del mondo es.( elephants ,rino ecct), anch'io sono in pensione...!Buona vita a te ,a tutta la famiglia di HERD, grazie.🤗💗🩷🧡🩵