People say you see pink elephants when you imbibe too much, but this is the real deal.
According to SWNS, safari operator Theo Potgieter spotted a pink African elephant calf at Olifants River in South Africa’sKruger National Park.
Potgieter told SWNS he had heard reports of a pink elephant living in the national park but hadn’t seen the colorful creature himself until February.
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“A handful of sightings have been reported of this young bull in late 2023, but to my knowledge, there is no footage,” the safari operator said.
The shots the man captured show the unique animal playing with his family and splashing near the river.
A male pink elephant calf with his family at Kruger National Park.Theo Potgieter/SWNS
“What a pleasant surprise,” the safari operator said of his experience.
A pink elephant calf playing near a river inside Kruger National Park.Theo Potgieter/SWNS
On July 31,a spotless giraffe calf was born at Brights Zoo, a private, family-run facility in Limestone, Tennessee.
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In August, Brights Zoo founder Tony Bright told PEOPLE that the last record of a spotless giraffe birth was in 1972 at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo.
Surprisingly, weeks after the spotless giraffe calf’s birth, another all-brown giraffe calfwas spotted in the wild in Nambia.
source: people.com
