In the wild, baby elephants are never left alone. At the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, keepers stay with the babies at night to make up for this.
Aside from poaching, one of the most common reasons baby elephants are lost is because they fall in wells or other man-made enclosures. Here we see the wisdom of the herd at work as an older elephant prevents a curious baby from getting too close.
Elephants block the road in order to get a drink. The baby elephant hasn't learned how to use it's trunk to the full yet so it brings it's face all the way to the water to drink.