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And there he is in his first stance with his mom. Now, elephants - there’s been some debate over time whether they are good natural mothers or whether they have to learn, and certainly they do a lot of learning in the wild. They will take care of their younger brothers and sisters as they grow, and by the time they are first time mothers they are very competent. I’ve found that if you can make it through the first few hours with these guys, they turn into excellent mothers. Certainly Kamala here within 30 minutes was totally connected to this calf. It took Shanthi about two hours before we convinced her that this was something that she needed to take care of.