# The Birth of an Elephant

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 18, 2010, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-birth-of-an-elephant/547097 "2010-07-18T05:21:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2010, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-birth-of-an-elephant/547097/1 "2010-07-18T05:21:48Z")

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Good video of an elephant giving birth to her baby girl at a safari park on the Indonesian island of Bali last September. WARNING: Extremely graphic and possibly Not Safe for Work, so I’ll disable the URL:

[www.fwdder.com/static/swf/video-player.swf?topic\_id=184431&att\_id=0](http://www.fwdder.com/static/swf/video-player.swf?topic_id=184431&att_id=0)

Don’t worry, the baby’s not stillborn, although it looks like it at first. Mama has to do her thing, the elephant equivalent of a human doctor slapping a baby’s butt.

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**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2010, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-birth-of-an-elephant/547097/2 "2010-07-18T05:31:49Z")

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Wow. Thanks for posting that.