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How cute! It must be a "first-time" mom

A pic by Borderline Junior recently!

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Unusual sighting yesterday
10:26am
An elephant's tusk found on the road
S21, close to Renosterkoppies
It was reported and taken care of.
5/5
Tinged by Lageweg
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8:33 AM

Rare elephant twins born in Kenya


A team of twins were born in the Samburu National Reserve in Kenya. The picture is from January 2022, when the female elephant Bora had also given birth to twins in the same reserve. Photo: Jane Wynyard/Ritzau Scanpix

The organization Save the elephants has shared a video of the two newborn babies and their mother, Alto, on social media X.

Twin births are unusual for elephants, and thus they make up just about one percent of elephant births.

The twins - two female elephants - have been born in the Samburu National Reserve in the East African country.

At the beginning of 2022, another team of elephant twins - a female elephant and a male elephant - came into the world in the same reserve.

Female elephants are the mammal in the world with the longest gestation period. They carry their young for almost 22 months and give birth approximately every four years

However, elephant twins are not always doing very well. A former twin couple born in Samburu National Reserve in 2006 only lived for a few days.
At the same time, the African savannah elephant is classified as threatened by IUCN, an international nature conservation organization.

According to the IUCN, poaching and habitat destruction damage the number of elephants in Africa.
In the 1970s and early 1980s, the elephant population in Kenya was 170,000.

However, it fell to 16,000 at the end of 1989 due to demand for ivory according to the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), which manages Kenya's wildlife.

In addition, KWS reports that there are more than 36,000 elephants in the East African country.

Here, efforts to stem poaching, must stop a decrease in the number of elephants.
/Ritzau/AFP

Mashatu, Botswana:

Wow!