{"id":314,"date":"2025-06-12T08:29:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T08:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/?p=314"},"modified":"2025-06-12T08:29:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T08:29:47","slug":"watch-elephants-help-struggling-calf-up-steep-ridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/?p=314","title":{"rendered":"Watch Elephants Help Struggling Calf Up Steep Ridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a baby elephant struggled to scale a steep slope, its caring family came to help. Showing tremendous intelligence and care, they soon helped the little bull on his way.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/latestsightings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Thumbail-Elephants-help-calf-NEW-1.png\" width=\"1452\" height=\"817\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Timothy Van Vuuren witnessed this touching incident and submitted his video and account to Latest Sightings. He filmed it while on a game drive at MalaMala Game Reserve in the Greater Kruger National Park.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"868\" height=\"489\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xWGG5Zn0arc\" title=\"Elephants Help Calf That Can&#39;t Get Up the Ridge\" 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>A steep challenge<\/p>\n<p>Van Vuuren said that he encountered a breeding herd of elephants crossing the Sand River. Noticing that the steep bank might prove challenging for the smallest elephant, he started filming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a baby elephant struggled to scale a steep slope, its caring family came to help. Showing tremendous intelligence and care, they soon helped the little bull on his way. &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-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elephant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","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=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}