San Diego Zoo Elephants Turn Rainy Weather Into an Absolute Party
Southern California has received a crazy amount of rain recently, and I most people living there are ready to get the sun back. But the elephants at the San Diego Zoo really seem to be enjoying it as you'll see in this video that they shared on Tuesday, February 6th.
What happens when rain hits the dirt? It makes mud, and with all the rain they've gotten over the last couple of weeks, it's made a lot of mud for this mama and her baby to play in! This may be the first time that this little one has gotten to play in that much rain, and it's loving it. Make sure your sound is up so you can hear the baby's happy roar. Try to watch this video just once...it's nearly impossible!
Talk about cuteness overload! All the rain and flooding has turned the elephants' home into a big old mud pit, and they love playing in it! I loved @San Diego Zoo's caption too, "Elefun in the rain". My favorite part of the video is when the baby elephant is rubbing bums with momma who doesn't seem to mind at all. I could watch this video all day, and I think they need a live cam so that we all can! Commenters loved the video as much as I did. My favorite comment came from @Amanda Remelle, "It all fun & games until you have to get them in the bathtub. LOL!"
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Elephant Life at the San Diego Zoo
While we only get to see two elephants in the cute video, San Diego Zoo is actually home to eight elephants. Their enclosure at the Safari Park is huge - about 5 acres of land designed to be as close to their natural habitat as possible.
The zoo says on their website, "Our team found that eight elephants at the Safari Park walked an average of 3 to 7 miles (5 to 11 kilometers) per day and walked the most during the middle of the day. These distances are comparable with what has been observed in elephants in Africa. Also, the relationship of the walking rate and time of day mirrors activity patterns observed in some populations of elephants in Africa."
Elephants spend a whopping 16 hours a day eating things like grass, leaves, shrubs, trees, and other vegetation. Adult elephants eat more than 300 pounds of food a day! If you visit, chances are you'll see at least a few of them snacking on something.
Conservation efforts are also important to the zoo, and they study elephant behavior (as well as recording the baby elephant's growth and development) and help advance elephant numbers through reproductive biology. Education to the public about the elephants is also a main focus for the zoo. If you haven't been to this zoo and have a chance to go, definitely take it! It's an amazing place to spend a day or two (and with all of those hills, you'll get a good workout in, too!)
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