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River Bend Lodge is a mere 55 minutes’ drive from Port Elizabeth and is an ideal malaria-free safari addition to a Garden Route holiday. Personalised game drives are led by enthusiastic and experienced guides, who will ensure you have a truly memorable safari experience.

One lucky visitor to the Addo Elephant National Park caught this loving moment when a baby elephant was reunited with its father. This little family, which includes a mother and adolescent elephant, were able to recognize each other across a great distance, and while being surrounded by hundreds of other elephants. Try not to choke up when the baby takes off upon seeing its daddy. Go on, we dare you.

 

 

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Cute animal videos have always been and will always be popular on the Internet. In fact, cute animal videos are so popular, you could start breaking them down into sub categories involving animals learning to do things, weird animals interacting with each other and my personal favorite, animals reminding us of just how human they are.

The above video most definitely falls in that last category. It features a family of three elephants being reunited after a period of time in which they were apart, and it is remarkably how familiar the whole thing seems. Mom elephant stands beside the kid watching as dad elephant approaches. Kid elephant gets excited and runs to meet dad. Dad offers a hey-what’s-up-look before embracing his elephant wife. It’s positively adorable, and it’s already attracted more than eighty thousand views in just a few short days.

The footage was shot at the Addo Elephant Park, which features hundreds of elephants. The camerawoman, Joan Young, wonders in the description how the little elephant is able to recognize the father, but I imagine it’s the same way we recognize our parents. There’s no doubt little differences animals use all the time to distinguish between relatives and strangers.

If you feel like checking out another adorable animal behave like a human being, I would advise watching the video I’ve embedded below. It features a dog who is so frightened about riding in a car that he continually asks his owner to hold his paw while on the road.

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As you recognise a long-lost family member in the distance, it can be instinct to run towards them and give them a big hug.

And the same is true for elephants, it seems. In this video, a young calf travelling with a parent bounds forward, then comes to a stop as it excitedly waits for its mother to catch up.

Then, the two adult elephants brush each other and connect trunks. It’s achingly cute, and makes you think that they haven’t seen each other for quite a while. The mother continues to nuzzle in his ear as another young elephant joins the herd, while the tiny calf looks on.

This cute video was taken at the Addo Elephant Park in South Africa, where more than 450 elephants live across 180,000 hectares of land.

African elephants are mainly found at this park, and although there were a few million of them at the start of the 20th century, the population has fallen to between 450,000 and 700,000 due to poaching.

Oh dear sweetness!

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NATIONAL PARK AND ENVIRONS
Situated in a malaria-free area a short drive
north of Port Elizabeth, Addo was created in 1931 to
protect the few shy survivors that constituted Africa’s
most southerly elephant population. These have since
multiplied and today they are very relaxed – indeed,
the elephant viewing here is usually superb – while
the original park is now the centrcpiece of a 17,00 o-
square-kilometer conservation area descending from
the peaks of the Zuurberg to the coastal dunefields
around Port Alfred, and including five of South Africa’s
seven terrestrial biomes.

A series of recent mammal
reintroductions means the core reserve – a great
self-drive destination — protects all the Big Five, with
black rhino and buffalo both conspicuous. And the
surrounding area supports several exclusive private
conservation areas, notably the superb Shamwari and
Kwandwe Game Reserves, which offer a sumptuous
(albeit relatively contrived) Big Five package comparable
to the best of the private reserves bordering Kruger.

Best time to visit: All year
Length of stay: 2-3 nights
Accommodation: Camping and inexpensive chalets at
the national park rest camp, or 5-star luxury at Shamwari
and Kwandwe.
Top tip: The location near Port Elizabeth makes this
cluster of reserves an ideal and uncomplicated add-on
to a self-drive trip from Cape Town along the legendary
Garden Route.

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A baby elephants runs faster when he recognizes his father (or is it some other relative?) coming toward him. The whole family looks lovely together. The tender moment was recorded at Addo Elephant National Park in South Africa. -via Daily Picks and Flicks

AUSTIN (KXAN) – This little elephant family reunion will get your heart’s pulse stampeding.

The baby elephant runs toward his dad from afar.

There are reportedly hundreds of elephants in the Addo Elephant Park in South Africa, so the video’s poster asks, “I wonder, from that distance, how the baby recognized the father?”

Toward the end of the video, you see the older sibling – sprouting new tusks and all – joins in.

We thought we would make an expedition towards the Addo Elephant Country specific Dog park, we’re regulars along at the Kruger Indigenous Recreation area, not to mention chose to have a relatively transformation connected with surroundings inside a different portion of South Africa. Addo Hippo Nationwide Area sits about Plug-ins Age inside the East Cpe as well as one of the countrys’ twenty years old nature.

Conceptualized within 1931 any school yard was established to present you with a haven with the 13 left over tigers in your community. There were several undomesticated elephants in this area since way back when, although tracking in the past previously had brought all of the phone numbers collapsing until finally there seems to be simply 12 allowed to remain Body seeker, Big JP Pretorius is known to have photograph 114 tigers regarding 1919 and additionally 1920!

Throughout the years, and a few teething complications, for example elephants leaking out from the substandard kennel area which usually encompassed the store and then ever again to be left by simply seeker and then stating who’s supply they will killed, a lot of tigers was still wiped out lower your attack as a result of engines in the adjoining condition collection. The event just by Graham Armstrong in 1954 on the “Armstrong Fence” put a halt to a goes out and additionally areas of this valuable boundary are nevertheless employed in all the Car park currently. There seems to be a single elephant this ever broke out of your Dog park, Harpoor was indeed a leading fluff provided by 1944 to be able to ’68, he your computer chip on his head that wasthat’s regarded an are generally brought on by a sportsmen round, which could express the reasons why he needed an excellent do not like for you to pet owners. This guy was initially deposed as a result of his dominating track record by just Lean, an adversary fluff. At the time Harpoor ended up being “dethroned” he / she runaway within the “Armstrong Fence” in addition to sad to say must be taken.

The main holidaymakers placed this park three decades ago additionally, the people in dinosaurs continues to grow from the time of, immediately one can find through 300 tigers in the neighborhood. Bulls from the Kruger Countrywide Woodland had been taught deliver different gene history towards Addo Nature pack an income have been completely brand new lower legs each period.

As with all the National Park system on South Africa, just wildlife which pure within the places really are reintroduced directly into the car park, alternative wildlife in the neighborhood can include Cpe zoysia grass, brown rhinocerous or a range of antelope types. Lion and even discovered hyena furthermore long been re-introduced in to the community. Any kind exclusive to the locale certainly is the flightless dung beetle; you will notice an abundance of signs or symptoms asking which you stay away from such beetles not running on them like with 400+ dinosaurs trucking jobs lousy massive amount dung!!Any dog park gets finished One hundred and ten,Five hundred site visitors each year; 54% of them really are Overseas people today, having French, Nederlander and then British isles excellent getting together again a lot.

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NATIONAL PARK AND ENVIRONS
Situated in a malaria-free area a short drive
north of Port Elizabeth, Addo was created in 1931 to
protect the few shy survivors that constituted Africa’s
most southerly elephant population. These have since
multiplied and today they are very relaxed – indeed,
the elephant viewing here is usually superb – while
the original park is now the centrcpiece of a 17,00 o-
square-kilometer conservation area descending from
the peaks of the Zuurberg to the coastal dunefields
around Port Alfred, and including five of South Africa’s
seven terrestrial biomes.

A series of recent mammal
reintroductions means the core reserve – a great
self-drive destination — protects all the Big Five, with
black rhino and buffalo both conspicuous. And the
surrounding area supports several exclusive private
conservation areas, notably the superb Shamwari and
Kwandwe Game Reserves, which offer a sumptuous
(albeit relatively contrived) Big Five package comparable
to the best of the private reserves bordering Kruger.

Best time to visit: All year
Length of stay: 2-3 nights
Accommodation: Camping and inexpensive chalets at
the national park rest camp, or 5-star luxury at Shamwari
and Kwandwe.
Top tip: The location near Port Elizabeth makes this
cluster of reserves an ideal and uncomplicated add-on
to a self-drive trip from Cape Town along the legendary
Garden Route.

AWWW, Featured — By Dave on 2013/10/08 5:37 PM

Baby elephant recognizes his dad ahead of the cutest family reunion you’ll see today. Filmed in Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa.

H/T:RightThisMinute.

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Addo Elephant – Park Eastern Cape South Africa | Dou Pienaar

This entry was posted by Laura Hardin on October 5, 2013 at 4:51 pm

Addo Elephant. Addo Kudu Portrait. Addo Kudu Silhouette. Bush Piggy Portrait. Friendly Warthog. Warthog scrap. Warthog scrap. Zebra Portrait. Zebra. Young Zebra dynamics. Drinking syncronisation. BW Zebra.

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Addo Elephant – Park Eastern Cape South Africa | Dou Pienaar

This entry was posted by Laura Hardin on October 5, 2013 at 4:51 pm

Addo Elephant. Addo Kudu Portrait. Addo Kudu Silhouette. Bush Piggy Portrait. Friendly Warthog. Warthog scrap. Warthog scrap. Zebra Portrait. Zebra. Young Zebra dynamics. Drinking syncronisation. BW Zebra.

River Bend Lodge is a mere 55 minutes’ drive from Port Elizabeth and is an ideal malaria-free safari addition to a Garden Route holiday. Personalised game drives are led by enthusiastic and experienced guides, who will ensure you have a truly memorable safari experience.

Article source: http://riverbendaddo.blogspot.com/2013/09/heritage-daysurprise.html

Today we spent an entire day at the Addo Elephant Park, which is a diverse wildlife conservation park and is one of South Africa’s 19 National Parks.  It currently ranks third in size after Kruger National Park and the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park.

During our visit, we spotted the following:  Termite Mounds,

Ostriches,

Warthogs,

Grysboks,

Birds,

Tortoise,

Buffaloes,

Kudos

Red Hartebeests,

 

Burchell’s Zebras

 

And mainly Elephants!!

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River Bend Lodge is a mere 55 minutes’ drive from Port Elizabeth and is an ideal malaria-free safari addition to a Garden Route holiday. Personalised game drives are led by enthusiastic and experienced guides, who will ensure you have a truly memorable safari experience. Article source: http://riverbendaddo.blogspot.com/2013/09/a-field-guides-viewspring-is-upon-us.html

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