Two elephant cubs are playing with their mother and learning to walk.
A video of a female elephant playing with her two calves is going viral on social media. It is an extremely rare event for an elephant to give birth to twins and the internet is enjoying it.
The video shows two baby elephants playing with their mothers and learning to walk.
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It was tweeted with the caption: “An elephant gives birth to twin calves in Bandipur National Park, India. An event is said to be extremely rare”.
According to local forest department officials, the female elephant gave birth to calves in Karnataka’s Bandipur Tiger Reserve earlier this week.
Officials further said that some tourists came across a herd of elephants, including a pregnant female, who was struggling to give birth. The elephant, unable to stand anymore, stepped into a nearby reservoir. Soon, the elephant’s mother was found walking out of the pond with two calves.
The moment was captured by tourists and locals on their mobile phones.
According to the Society for the Protection of Animals Abroad, elephants have a one in a million chance of producing twins, with the majority of twin births occurring in wild African elephants. In their lifetime, they may have four to five offspring. They can be identical, non-identical, of different sexes or of the same sex.
In September last year, Sri Lanka’s main elephant orphanage recorded a rare twin birth, as a 25-year-old named Surangi gave birth to healthy male calves.
They were the first elephant twins born in captivity in Sri Lanka since 1941, elephant expert Jayanta Jayawardene told AFP news agency.
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