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Look at this cute-as-all-getout baby elephant playing in the dirt! "But Paw Nation," some of you are saying, "why is it baby animals all the time with you? An adult elephant is one of the proudest, most noble, most magnificent, most intelligent creatures on this blue marble we call Earth. Why focus on the baby acting like a straight-up doof?" Well, you're right in your assessment of elephants. But standing around looking majestic only goes so far. Playing in dirt is entertaining forever. However, if you can find a video of an adult elephant playing in dirt with equal abandon, we'll post it. ...
Sneezing baby panda, have you finally met your match? With more than 118 million views, the sneezing panda video is currently the most popular animal video in YouTube history. Any Hollywood executive will tell you that the way to repeat success is to copy whatever formula struck gold in the first place. That's why it's astonishing that it's taken five years for someone to recapture the magic of that panda clip. Maybe it's the novelty of seeing something new, but we think this sneezing elephant is even funnier than its panda counterpart. What do you think, readers? Does our new pachyderm friend have a chance to unseat the sneezing baby panda from the top of the sneezing-baby-animal-video ...
Good news for fans of baby zoo animals: A new elephant calf was born at the San Diego Zoo this week! The bouncing baby boy--who hasn't been named yet--was born on Monday morning at 5:45. Here he is taking some of his first, unsteady steps near his mother, Umngani, at the zoo's Safari Park. Did you ever notice how a newborn elephant walks a lot like my grandpa? Also like my grandpa, this baby elephant really loves jazz clarinet, apparently. ...
mschark, YouTube All hands on deck. Or trunks, as it were. After Joplin, Mo. was devastated by twisters, locals needed all the help they could get in cleaning up the aftermath. And not just human help either. This elephant is part of the Picadilly Circus, which had rolled its bigtop into Joplin for a performance when the storms struck. Since the venue where the circus was meant to go on instead was converted into a makeshift hospital, the circus was canceled. But instead of skipping town, the circus stayed to help, including their floppy-eared pachyderm of burden. ...
Watch videos from Paw Nation We absolutely LOVE the new Imax film "Born to Be Wild 3D." The movie follows two amazing women, Biruté Galdikas and Daphne M. Sheldrick, as they work rescuing orphaned animals and raising them until they can be released in the wild. Galdikas and her organization, Orangutan Foundation International, seek to protect the Great Red Apes and their only habitat, the tropical forests of Borneo and northern Sumatra. Sheldrick has been continuing the work of her husband through the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, seeking to save the African wilderness and endangered wildlife. This film focuses on her efforts with baby elephants. The teams that work with these ...
We watch celebrities the way a hawk watches a mouse, and these days famous folks are likely to have menageries of their own. Here are three recent celebrity pet stories that caught our eagle eyes here at Paw Nation. Jason Merritt, Getty Images Robert Pattinson Loves His Dog -- and Acting Elephants Pattinson is best known for portraying a vampire at odds with a werewolf (in a little series of films called "Twilight"). In real life, he has no problem canoodling with a canine. Pattinson adopted a dog from a shelter, promptly shortening the pooch's name from Yogi Bear to simply Bear, telling MTV that he felt "Yogi was a bit much." The actor also had high praise for Tai, his elephant ...