{"id":279,"date":"2025-06-10T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/?p=279"},"modified":"2025-06-10T10:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T10:00:08","slug":"baby-elephants-piggyback-ride-goes-adorably-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"Baby Elephant\u2019s Piggyback Ride Goes Adorably Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While enjoying some family time at a local waterhole, an elephant calf had an inadvertent learning experience. Watch as the playful youngster learns about the effects of gravity.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/latestsightings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Elephant-Fall-Thumbnail-1.png\" width=\"1000\" height=\"567\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This footage was filmed by Thys Pretorius, who sent it along with his story to Latest Sightings. He filmed it while visiting Addo Elephant National Park in Eastern Cape province, South Africa.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"773\" height=\"435\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8RpKw7qRE3Y\" title=\"Baby Elephant&#39;s Piggy Back Ride Goes Adorably Wrong\" 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>Commenting on his video, Thys set the scene, \u201cWe were at a dam in Addo just watching the elephants bathing and playing around. You could see there was so much joy and excitement amongst the herd. I was just loving sitting there and watching them all have fun.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While enjoying some family time at a local waterhole, an elephant calf had an inadvertent learning experience. Watch as the playful youngster learns about the effects of gravity. This footage &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-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elephant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","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=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}