"The baby elephant is not tall enough when it is born, and it has to step on the stool to drink milk," the poster wrote alongside the adorable footage, which has received 6.7 million views.

For instance, did you know baby elephants drink about 10 litres of milk a day after a two-year-long gestation? They don’t usually get completely weaned until they’re about two, Seaworld says. And yes, ...

At the Reteti Elephant Sanctuary in northern Kenya, orphaned calves such as Hamsini, above, used to be fed imported human infant formula. Now many drink a formula made of local goat milk, which is ...

A rescued baby elephant was caught on camera falling asleep on a tyre after her daily milk feed and mud bath. Korbessa, now 21 months old, was rescued in August 2023 and is being raised at the ...

The baby was born at around 7 a.m. on Monday, August 22, 2022. Donna’s newborn baby, an endangered Asian elephant, wanders about at the Zoological Society of London's Whipsnade Zoo in ...

After elephant seal mothers give birth in winter, they feed their pups milk for about a month before returning to the ocean to hunt. These youngsters at Año Nuevo State Park in spring 2022 have four ...

First, came the news that alligator penises are almost erect. Then, we found out just how silly crocs look when they’re floating. And now? Now, we learn about elephant nursing. In a recent Reddit post ...