Teacher caught elephant mother ‘schooling’ her calf on camera

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A mother elephant’s gesture of using her trunk and body to gently steer her calf in the right direction caught photography enthusiast and school teacher Darmin Ladiro who was passing by the Felda Umas settlement near Tawau recently.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/5n8vcn7w   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Photography enthusiast Darmin Ladiro saw a so-called cute moment involving two elephants

00:09when he passed by the Feda Umar settlement near Tawau recently.

00:13He couldn't help but film the incident, like what he had done on other occasions whenever

00:18he saw the animals.

00:21He said the mother elephant was trying to stop her baby elephant from going to a nearby

00:25river by using her trunk.

00:28He said she was trying to lead the calf back into the forest.

00:31He said sightings of the iconic Borneo elephant, or known as pygmy elephant, have been rare

00:37until seven years ago.

00:38He said a tree-planting project was going on in the area and the elephants had been

00:43coming out to look for food.

00:49The 50-year-old Darmin is also a Bahasa Malaysia teacher at SK Umas Umas.

00:56He said elephants could also be seen along main roads in the area and there is a human-elephant

01:01conflict as they are fighting for space.

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