An adorable baby elephant glided down mud like it was a slip and slide.
Footage shows the young jumbo named Walee gliding down the slippery riverbanks where its mum and others were swimming in Chiang Mai province, Thailand, on March 31.
The youngster was then followed by a much large, less graceful, elephant.
As of 2023, there are an estimated 3,084-3,500 wild elephants in Thailand. The population has been increasing in recent years, but it is still a fraction of the estimated 300,000 wild elephants that lived in Thailand at the beginning of the 20th century. The main threats to wild elephants in Thailand are habitat loss and fragmentation, poaching, and conflict with humans.
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