The Incredible Moment Missing Elephant Bull, Mambo is Found & Reunited with His Herd! 

Mambo seemed a little nonplussed by all the commotion, lol. I'm sure he's already plotting his next escapade.

Absolutely speechless. Thanks for the footage. 😮😅😊

Wow. That was amazing and a privilege to see the Mambos family greet him. Lundi his mum Towke, Kumbura, Limpopo and even lickle Khanyisa bless her. Stunning. Thk u all for bringing Mambo back safe and sound 🥰🐘🥰🐘🥰🐘🥰🐘🥰🐘🥰 xx

🫶✨🐘🌿This was such a privileged video Shepherd. Thank you so much, it supports the ever increasing depth of elephant knowledge of 🐘 🍈🐘bonds and loyalty. The haze, then the clarity of being with loved ones, who love you right back. Superb 🐘🌿🐘🌱🐘💞

Oh how they were all upset and concerned for our Mambo. Lundi was inspexting him, and Tokwe just was going in to make sure Lundi was OK first. I feel for them. I'm so glad this got on tape. I felt bad for Mambo until the Herd came in cause he definitely was quite upset. What a good move to get the Herd to him.

Mambo: “was it all a dream”.? Lundy: “MY BABY, YOU OK SWEETIE? I was so worried”. Tokwe: “BULL! you had us all worried. You ok?” Khanyisa: “Mambo where you been, mommy was worried and mad and scared. You in trouble. Did you bring me marulas?’ Me: glad you home Mambo. Safe and loved

AWARD WINNING VIDEO!! We need Sweat Shirts! ¿WHERE IN THE BUSH IS MAMBO?!!😂❤ I can hear Tokwe say, "Do you know how worried your mother was?!"

I cried from start to finish. What a joyous sight. Thank you so much for sharing the lives of these wonderful animals with us. 😊💕

He is beautiful ❤❤❤❤❤

And Mama found Mambo with a hangover, smelling like wild women... 😂

Can someone tell me why Mambo went missing and who sedated him. Cheers Rosemary Perth Western Australia 72yrs

There is nothing like a mother love. No matter how big you are you're still their baby

The trumpets and rumbles!! It must have been so comforting to Mambo to hear his family. Lundi snuggling up next to his head says it all. ❤️ Thank you for searching so hard for him and for taking this video so we can share in the herd’s delight!

🌞 NO MATTER HOW NAUGHTY MAMBO GETS....YOU CAN'T HELP BUT LOVE HIM!!!!..AND SO IT IS WITH THE "HERD"!!!.....💕💕💕😎🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🇺🇸

Some people in the comments seem to not have watched the other videos about Mambos disappearance and I hope they will educate themselves before accusing the amazing work of HERD. Can't stand when rumors start that way and good work gets muddied like that. If anybody is truly worried about and also interested in these elephants - there are so many videos on this channel which explain all the stuff you are asking about. I bet most "weird" comments are by people who just come by, leave a nasty comment and go on with their accusations and semi-knowledge elsewhere. Thank you HERD for educating us on your rescue work and keeping the herd together - even if a rambunctious teen bull named Mambo tries to stir up things and make his rules to run away from a safe haven from time to time. 😁

Wow!!!!! Fantastic video. VERY intense. Thank you!

Thank you for sharing these important and tender moments of the herd reunited again with us! you can see and feel how relieved Lundi and the other are when they finally smelled and heard Mambo. Wonderful to watch 💓

Just look at Lundi 🐘 rubbing all over Mambo 🐘. You can see just how happy she was to see her son. What a beautiful moment to see the Jabulani HERD 🐘 welcoming Mambo 🐘 back. I had happy tears flowing. I am so happy that Mambo 🐘 was found safe and sound.❤️🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘❤️

Thank you for catching this , Sheperd. What a reunion! Lundi will be so relieved. I'd love to know what choice words Tokwe had for him!😅 He may be different from the rest, but he is loved. Good job, everyone, bringing him home!💖🙏🐘

Your Carers did an excellent job! They show how much they love the elephants ❤

Awesome video Shepherd! Lundi glued herself to Mambo’s side, and even Tokwe gave heed! Then, Khanyisa! 😍

Videos like this sure make you realize how cruel it was to put elephants in circuses. Look at that mother kiss her rescued baby on the cheek several times with the tip of her trunk. Just like another species we all know would do. Blessings to all who protect our elephants.

Oh my! Thank you Shephard. Lundi was so happy. She kept her head right next to Mambo’s. You could feel the adrenaline flowing from everyone. I’m so glad you were able to film this incredible moment to share. 😍🇺🇸

I have tears streaming with joy❤. To see the herd so upset about Mambo. Thank goodness this was filmed … incredible

Thank you so much for sharing this endearing moment! I swear I can almost see Lundi smiling when she approaches Mambo with open mouth, almost as she wanted to kiss him. Even at a huge distance we can feel the love. 💓🐘

Thank you, Shepherd, for this remarkable footage, and thanks to all the carers for their rescue efforts. Lundi’s emotional welcome was heartwarming, but I can’t help wondering what Mambo himself was thinking and feeling after waking to find himself displaced from the wild herd he had briefly joined and suddenly reunited with his HERD family. We will never know. For now, I’m glad he’s safe once again.

L'une des vidéos les plus impressionnantes que j'ai vues, elles sont toutes grandioses🐘👪 félicitations les amis impressionnant !💚🙏🇨🇭

.. This is a "Master-Class" by Carer-Shepherd & Tigere, on "How to Respect & Cherish" the Profound-Allegiance that All of the HERD-Elephants have for one-another .. Lundi...Mambo...Tokwe...and even "Little-Khanysia" ( 04:39 ) have So-Much to Teach Us All .. Thank You So Much ..Shepard.. for recording this Wonderful Teaching Moment....!!!! ..💋💋💋

Thank you so much for sharing the happy outcome with us. Of course the pink BB had to be in the forefront so as to make sure everything was ok! Hopefully Mambo calms down but who can say? Good job by everyone.

This was great to see the whole herd coming to get the one who wandered off.

Was the herd able to return home by nightfall?

You can see Lundi just being so happy to have her boy back, it's so moving. Thank you for sharing.

Was Mambo lost again? He needs a chip. Such a wandering guy. ❤ we love him.

What an adventure !

Wow! I keep wondering what was going on in Mambo's mind after waking up from the sedative. I hope he was as happy as his mom and others who greeted him with trumpeting triumph's to the prodigal that was found. 💞🎉🥳🥰 Fabulous video. Thank you 💕 Shepherd did a marvelous job keeping up on Mambo, too👍🙋🐘🌿💚

Wow. That was incredible. Anyone else get choked up when they make their trumpeting sounds 😭🙌🏻 ❤ What does the ear flapping mean for them? They were all doing it when they found mambo.

SOOOO happy Mambo is back in the HERD, love the clan welcoming him back, tks for sharing great job ev1, watching from eastern Canada ❤ elephants

Whew!!! That was very tense😮 Great work Jubulani Family. You all saved Mambo from his teenage foolishness.

You can see how very relieved Lundi was to see Mambo and even little Khanyisa was on alert to make sure Mambo was ok

Mambo, Mambo, как же все за тебя переживают, волнуются...

Lundi is smiling! What a great video. ❤

Thank you for this heartwarming wake up for an elderly Virgninia lady! Love my South African friends both four and two legged!

What a precious moment.!! Thanks for sharing. Glad Mambos back with the Herd ❤ Thanks to all the carers for all they do. Much love from N.Z 🇳🇿

What an incredible moment to witness just how attached elephant herds are to each other. Naughty Mambo surrounded by love.

This is so wonderful they are so sensitive

Awesome how head to head trunk to trunk they missed him.mom leaned against his face.such good footage ❤

Hi khanisa ❤️. Yes I followed the story and very happy he is back. He doesn't know how lucky he is. But he will know. Thanks very much to you all 👍👍👍

What a moment for the herd! Lundi was just so happy to see her boy, she just wanted to touch him and be close to him! Very heartwarming video! ❤

Mama Lundi looked so happy to see her naughty boy again both flapping their ears. ;o)

So intense! Almost a tear came me, from the reaction of Mambo´s mother. When she she met her son, she kind of smiled. What a beautiful video, and rumbling of the meet 💖🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘💖. Thank you for share ❤.

O M G! That was one of the most beautiful moments ever, seeing Lundi reunited with her son. I can't imagine how she must've been feeling while he was away from her. It must've been a tense moment for the carers too, especially in that thick bush and not knowing how Mambo would react when he woke up. Just brilliant 👌.

What a wonderful privilege it is for us all to be able to share this moment. So grateful to all the people who made sure Mambo was cared for and was safe. Thank You 🌹❤️🌹

Thank You so much, Shepherd. It was certainly not easy to keep an eye on the herd, on the whole situation, and film it. Most of us would probably have dropped the mobile phone!!

Glad he wasn't aggressive and remembered who his caretakers were. after being groggy from the sedation!!!

Thank you Shepherd. You did a fantastic job to record this very emotional reunion of mother and her prodigal son.💝🐘💝

Great video! Amazing animals the way they rally around Mambo to bring him back with the herd. Glad the carers elephants are all safe.

What a magnificient welcoming for Mambo You can see, feel the joy and the relief felt by mama Lundi so happy to have her son, Mambo the Mischevious, back It gave me goose pimples and brought tears to my eyes listening to the trumpeting and the rambles from his Herd and to see wonderful Matriarch Tokwe running to support her best friend Lundi even little Miss Sunshine and Kumbura so happy It is such a great Family moment that we are more than lucky and happy to share, Thanks to Sheperd, the apty named, with all members of the Herd; Guardian Angels, Rangers, Dr. Rogers and Team and Adine, the great coordinator We love you ❤ Mambo included 🐘

I am always overwhelmed when I hear elephants communicate, all that trumpeting and all the rumbles...I simply can not understand how some people can harm these majestic animals.

hope Mambo realises how much the herd appreciate the return of Mambo

The elephants are in good hands. You can hear one of the caregivers sobbing for joy. Thanks for giving the elephants the love & respect they deserve. It doesn't go unnoticed.

That was an amazing video of the reunion!!!! So happy Mambo is back with his herd safe and sound. The carers are incredible. Such love and dedication to the Herd! Thank you all......

So glad it was caught on video, beautiful reunion!❤😊

Thank you for sharing this momentous occasion with us. Each time I watch I rejoice with tears of joy. Lundi's reaction was more than I imagined. She was truly relieved. This only could have been possible with the highly skilled team of dedicated carers. It is easy to see how the reunion could have gotten dangerous. So much emotion from all. Thank you carers! Thank you very much!

The members of this herd should never be separated

I'm so glad Shepherd found this clip. It's a truly moving and emotional movement for both the elephants and those who care for them. I bet Lundi said "Get your a$$ over here!"🤣🤣

Maravillo video. Emocionante reencuentro. Pienso que Mambo necesitaba sentir que toda la manada le ama. El es especial y, tal vez, el tenga un poco de celos porque tiene que compartir a su madre. El gran amor de toda la manada cura sus heridas al encontrarle y mostrarle su reconocimiento. Pero él es muy seductor... se estaba preparando su harén! Es fuerte Mambo, muy fuerte. Gracias por compartir y por protegerle. ❤

THANK YOU so much Shepherd for taking this video! I watched it several times and enjoyed it more and more. Little Khanyisa standing in her herd calmly grabbing a snack during the melee. I wonder if the herd with their amazing ability could smell the different drugs used on Mambo. This was wonderful.Thank you.

Poor Mambo - he wakes up and has no idea where he is or what's going on!! Then he hears Mom and he tries to flee! Just another bad dream, Mambo, but everyone is home safe and sound. Another happy day in the life of the Jabulani herd. Love these elephants and their blessed family.

Tokwe looks like she's ready to fight anyone who interferes lol. This is incredible

Remembering how the herd became very agitated at the homestead when Khanyisa was being integrated from the nursery because there was just one unexpected object in their home. Here, they’re coping with multiple new people involved with Mambo’s recovery as well as being in an unfamiliar part of the reserve. Considering that, their behaviour is pretty well controlled! When Lundi put her trunk into his mouth, the expression on his face seems like, “Sorry, Mum” 🥰

Amazing !! So glad Mambo is back with herd & mom 🐘❤️

Buenas tarde família abençoada.

Qué momento tan lleno de sentimiento y emoción! Preocupación, expectativas, y al final, muchísima solidaridad y amor!!!! Gracias a Sheperd y a todo el equipo quienes trabajaron extra para reunir a su manada con el tremendo Mambo!!!! Me encanto que en la narración de los hechos, un cuidador describe que Nsmbo ya tenía varias novias , entre las elefantas que viven libres ….. y las tenia aparte, todas para él!!!!😅😊❤❤❤❤

They're excited to be back together. I love this family!

That was beautiful 💖

Looking at Lundi with her son made me cry. I love the herd.❤

Fascinating to see the capture happening & the rest of the herd reuniting with him. A right bit of a kerfuffle which ended ok!

These animals are 8ncred8ble.

That was very intense. Khanyisa: what is all the fuss about? Thank you all for the care and love you show to this majestic creation.

It’s always a good day when we get to see our beautiful family! ❤️👍🏻 I hope Mambo will eventually calm down. He’s a gorgeous boy!

oh yay!!!!! you did get this moment on film!!!!! love you all!!!

Dear Lundi, touching her son. The love and devotion of the HERD FAMILY. They are calling to him, to comfort and calm Mambo. Mambo may be having "Teenage Hormonal Wonderlust".

It's something to watch these elephants reunite and bond. Im breathless every time I come and visit the family.:)

It's very clear that Lundi is happy to have her son back. ❤️ This is a beautiful and heartwarming video. Glad to know elephants and carers are safe and sound. Truly remarkable the team effort that went into locating Mambo and reuniting him with his herd.

Carer Shepard, you are an angel for having captured what we all were hoping to see, the reunion of M Mambo with his HERD and loving mother, Lundi. I cannot remember seeing Lundi so overjoyed, with a smile from ear to ear, snuggling up to her son and rumbling to him affectionately in their elephant lingo. Mambo was obviously still groggy, but when he heard the last " Come, Come, Come" he recognized the familiar call. It was great to see munchkins Timisa💞and Pisa in the background with their trunks held high, sussing out the whole thing. And of course, there's our Meisiekind, who darted out of the crowd to get a bee line view of what was happening--and as always munching on some greens. I have watched this video now about 20 times. It's just fantastic. Thanks to everyone! 🙏🐘

What wonderful dedicated carers. A joy to witness ❤

I am so happy Mambo made it home safe and sound. He's a handsome man. 💜 I bet everyone is so relieved to have him back home.

Danke!

Lundi is holding and guarding him as if he was still a baby. Wonderful forethought to film this discovery and reunion to share with us.!! The Marlon Perkins and Sir David Attenborough awards for Wildlife Filming to Shepherd!! 🎥

❤❤❤ I had actually wanted to see this footage, but thought that maybe it was excluded or didn't exist. Thank you for the privilege of being able to see it. Amazing sounds. I imagine we can't hear all of them ... And the body language ❤❤❤

All I can say is wow.

Beautiful, I feel the joy! What an amazing amount of ear flapping. It is incredible how easily an elephant like Mambo can disappear and be camouflaged by the foliage. I wish all people cared for each other like elephants do.

Mambo waking up is like "which one of you guys hit me, cuz I was just checking out some girls"😎🐘🐘🐘

Bad boy Mambo! Now that must have been an expensive endeavour to get him back? We're all so glad that he's safe and sound and nothing bad happened to him! I fear it won't be the last time he runs away. Maybe he needs a GPS/tracking device clipped to his ear or something?🤔😕

Oh my goodness! What an incredible sight of love ❤️. Thank for keeping them save... Mambo you are sooo loved😍 .

Even Tokwe, who bulldozed part of the stable because of Mambo's naughtiness, was right there guarding him. So magnificent to see the herd continuously protecting each other.

Mambo, mambo, quite putting the scare in us viewers 😳 you know we all love you very much, and even all the carers your family and mama Adine, now mambo please behave and be a good boy, no more wandering off...now stop that, that'll be enough...

Lundi was telling him off and asking "where have you been now?" " youve got everyone scared my son" 💖💖💖💖💖💖 pretty sure Lundi was crying out of happiness , and when i saw Khanyisa coming out between legs and trumps i just yelled its not just cute its awesome she is not afraid of anything, she wanted to see first hand what all the fuss was about, and happy to see her older brother Mambo back in the family 💖💖💖💖💖💖

I am so glad there was footage of this precious moment❣️❣️❣️

Whew! I admire how you all are so great, & patient, & I know exactly how to help each elephant & this family. Thank you! 🐘🙂🐘