Elephant gives birth to a flat calf... watch what she does

This is incredible. If you didn't trust birth before, you'll trust it after watching this. The only thing that disturbs me is that the calf is born onto concrete, not like in the wild... but none the less, check out how perfect and amazing mother nature and mother's intuition can be... and why we shouldn't mess with it. We might think that we'd be helpless in a hospital bed in hospital... but that's because we've given away trust and intuition (and midwives) which is why we have fear.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf2uruwCX6M

:o oh man, That was AMAZING! brought tears to my eyes.

that was amazing!!

that was amazing!!

WOW!!!! Thanks for sharing that Kelly, an amazing video, actually cried a little, as I do for every birth I have seen! lol

Just beautiful

Wow :clap:

wow! that was awesome

wow nature is amazing

Wow! I wonder what humans would be like if left to do it on our own? In many cases thank god we have medical help.

Wow! That was amazing!

Naaaawwww! Thats so beautiful! I love how she immediately changes from frantic to calm once the little calf starts breathing, checking it over, softy touching it.

Another thing about elephants, usually they have the rest of the herd (the females anyway) who act as midwives, and would help protect the mum, allow her to recover and help get the calf up quickly after the birth. She did well herself, but I couldn't help feel lonely for her.

Awww how sweet!! She was amazing.

i got scared for a minute there :(
mother nature truelly is amazing :)

Just beautiful!

Oh, that was beautiful :)

That was amazing!

I just showed my 2DD's, they loved it.

Go mum :)

Far out! It looked like she was sooo rough, but I guess she is programmed to know what to do if this ever happened. I tell you what though, I thought there was an awful lot of muck come out when you have a human baby but that takes the cake ROFL.

awww how beautiful, i must say i was getting worried for awhile there, hw special and beautiful, she new exactly what she was doing

That was absolutely amazing!, i adore elephants i adore everything about them and that was my first viewing of a birth of a baby elephant, i was so emotional watching that, she looked like she was in pain and when the baby didnt move i was saying to it "move, please move.." and i got the biggest smile on my face when it started to breathe, the mother knew exactly what to do and she did an amazing job. And the way she coaxed it to get up was beautiful, she seemed a bit frustrated but i guess us mothers get a bit like that when we teach our little ones to walk.

Thank you so much for showing that to us Kelly :)