Elephants are one of the most adorable animals in the world. Last week, Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer Susanta Nanda, shared a video that showed an elephant calf running alongside its two human caretakers. During its run, the young calf tumbles down for a bit but quickly gets up. The calf is then cajoled by a group of caretakers and it soon starts running again.
The elephant calf in the video, Pragan, was orphaned at the age of one. Fortunately, he came under the care of the Paradise Wildlife Park, a UK-based animal rescue charity.
While sharing the clip of Pragan’s run, Susanta Nanda wrote, “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” pic.twitter.com/GUg2nIPNfx
— Susanta Nanda (@susantananda3) October 4, 2023
Commenting on it, an X user wrote, “Elephants are the most cutest ones on Earth.” Another person wrote, “Soooo cute. Just like a toddler. No less 🥰😊”.
In November 2022, another adorable video involving a rescued elephant calf went viral.
In the clip, journalist Alvin Patterson Kaunda was recording a segment for KBC Television while standing close to a herd of young elephants at the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya. As he spoke about orphaned elephants and the importance of wildlife protection, a young elephant named Kindani kept bumping into him but Kaunda remained unfazed and continued to speak.
At one point, however, the four-year-old female elephant put her trunk over the journalist’s head and kept poking and tickling him in the face, eventually making Kaunda burst into laughter at her antics.