{"id":269,"date":"2025-06-09T05:40:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T05:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/?p=269"},"modified":"2025-06-09T05:40:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T05:40:19","slug":"baby-elephant-bravely-confronts-adult-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/?p=269","title":{"rendered":"Baby Elephant Bravely Confronts Adult Lions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This brave young elephant faced multiple adult lions, despite already being weakened by a bad knee.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/latestsightings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-3-3.jpg\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cynthia Mack caught the incredible courage of this baby elephant on camera while in the Hwange National Park. She told Latest Sightings that she and her group were at Little Makololo when they first noticed the elephant.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"773\" height=\"435\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/etx_4IY4NZ4\" title=\"Baby Elephant Tries Fighting Lions\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>She described it as \u201ca grey object \u2018jumping\u2019 back in the treeline\u201d, and used binoculars to identify it as \u201ca young male elephant all by himself (about 5-8 years from the size of his little tusks).\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This brave young elephant faced multiple adult lions, despite already being weakened by a bad knee. Cynthia Mack caught the incredible courage of this baby elephant on camera while in &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elephant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}