What You Can Tell About Elephants by Looking at Their Dung | Elephant & Plant Lessons 🐘🌿

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Join us for an educational walk in the bush and learn more about elephants and the African wilderness! Adine and carer Owen share their knowledge of different plant species, show us how to tell if an elephant is male or female (by looking at their dung and urine!), and give us a quick look at how elephants protect their teeth 🐘

Remember to turn on closed captions for this video to read along with what Adine and Owen are saying ✨

Today, a few of the elephants spend some time snacking on a soft leaf combretum tree. Elephants and other animals love eating the branches, leaves, and roots of this type of tree. The tree is important to a wide variety of animals. The tree does, however, have a way to protect itself from being eaten – this type of adaption is known as defence against herbivory. The tree is able to produce a compound that makes its leaves taste bitter, thereby deterring animals from eating the leaves.

Next, Owen shows how you can differentiate between male and female elephants by looking at their dung and urine. The key is to look at the position of the dung and the urine. If the urine is in front of the dung, the urine and dung are those of a female elephant. If the urine is on top of and surrounding the dung, the urine and dung are those of a male elephant.

Later, you can see one of the ways that elephants protect their teeth. Before eating a bundle of grass, they swipe the bundle around to remove the soil that’s stuck to the grass. They do this because eating the soil would damage their teeth. It’s important for elephants to protect their teeth, as they will have only six sets of teeth in their lives – once they go through the sixth set, they will not grow another set. They then die of starvation. Therefore, the longer they can make their sets of teeth last, the longer they can live.
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I love the respect y’all have for living things. How Owen apologized to the worm for taking its food. What a special bunch of people y’all are ❤

grfuldeb
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Thank you, Adine and Owen for the Information and the peaceful footage. 😊

bellablock
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Just love taking these walks and getting an education lesson at same time ..tu

lesleyhoban
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If all the world could be like this. Oh my heart ❤

lynne
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Thank you for information about the environment, plants and dung 😊❤🐘🐘🐘❤😊👍🙏

onnalexseeias
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Owe, u r the man. Explaining everything in a way we can all understand. Seeing this family at sunrise, now that is peace.

martydornbos
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Love is the most important thing. I love that the elephants express love. I love that the herd includes everyone in love. I love that the carers love the elephants & the elephants express love to the carers. I particularly love the way that the herd show love & care to the young elephants.

sarahstrong
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Your peace is sublime and to be envied. I enjoy learning about the environment as much as the ellies. Sending many blessings to all the Mothers there. ❤️🇺🇸

camelotcat
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Awh there they are our family, i love watching the Ellies snacking, i love it when they move a leg back and forth, Owen is a fountain of knowledge, thank you for this lesson Owen, with Elephant's size i did used to think they ate a lot but how wrong was I!, i remembered about the dung from a while back but its still good to refresh your knowledge, thank also Adine for your knowledge too, much love to all of the care givers, and our beauties 💙💙💙🐘🐘🐘

jr
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Thanks Owen (and Adine) for a great explanation of how this tree protects itself against being eaten out of existence by the elephants foraging on it. It’s wonderful the way these survival mechanisms have evolved over millennia.
I’ve often wondered how all the vegetation in your locality survives when it must provide the needs of such enormous herbivores as your HERD elephants plus groups of wild elephants moving through the area. An adult elephant must consume an incredible amount of food each day. Your local dung beetles must love the elephants

MrStevehunter
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Adine and Owen, thanks for this great lesson. It was so nice to see the HERD all foraging so peacefully. And a bonus shot of Jabulani greeting Bubi with a trunk kiss and Bubi tentatively and gently returning it like the lady she is! Excellent video! Thanks!

carolinamoreno
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Gracias ADINE por compartir éste bonito video toda la manada de elefantes de JABULANI 🐘 en sus actividades Gracias Señores cuidadores ustedes trabajan con amor y dedicación ❤❤

gloriamariasuarezpinto
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WOW!! What an awesome ending to the video.🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🥳🧘‍♀️🙏🥰😘🙏🫶🏻 Thank you Adine and Carer too for the education between the female and male dung and urination too. It’s always so wonderful to see the Herd out in the bush eating and just taking in the quietness too.🥰🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🙏 Then the best truly the best for last where was absolute silence and the elephants standing in the water and not moving or making a sound. That is definitely pure silence and joy right there.❤️🥰🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘 Thank you to the elephants for being such awesome calm and trusting elephants, and Adine for the education and also for showing and talking about some of the elephants that you showed too. God bless and thank you always. I send the elephants big hugs and lots of love and prayers all the time for their good health and safety too. God bless and love to the humans and also to the elephants too. Sue M.(Florida, USA)🙏😘❤️🥰🫶🏻🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘👍🏻❌⭕️❌⭕️

susanmorris
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Such a beautiful walk with our Herd family❤

ruthied.
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HELLO MY MAJESTIC GIANTS OF THE AFRICAN BUSH!!!❤😍🐘🐘🐘🌳🌊...AND THANK YOU OWEN FOR SHARING THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE ELLIES DUNG IDENTITY AND TREES!!!...AND TO ADINE'S KNOWLWDGE AS WELL!!!😃👍😍😘💜🐘🐘🐘🍼🐘🐘🐘🌳🌊💜🔥🙏👑➕📖🔥

Globally
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They are lovely family members~👍
Thank you for sharing the information~🤗

AniFam
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That was very educational. Thank you.

macca
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Thanks very much for your very interesting videos. 👍👍👍

candidaprout
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This channel is so educational. I have learned a lot from the Jabulani HERD 🐘 and their human family. Please don't ever stop educating us ❤.

dorothywestcott
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i love love❤❤the ellies & please stay safe🙏🙏 precious babies

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