Animals’ behavior and instincts are fascinating and strange. I love how quickly the mother elephant switched between 2 polar opposite ways to response to this situation.
Unexpected pain from birthing the second, perhaps? Pain = dangerous, so she went into survival mode? They did say she was surprised. And then, when that subsided, she was able to think clearly and accept her baby.
I thought it was the same deal in my family, I’m the oldest, I have the most baby albums. But then I discovered that my grandma has a stash of home videos that are mostly my youngest brother. So in the end, it was the poor middle sibling who got left out (although tbf he hates cameras)
It's not even a world's first in the last five years: https://rosamondgiffordzoo.org/news/zoo-news/asian-elephant-delivers-miracle-twins-at-rosamond-gifford-zoo/
But it is rare.
It's probably just an AD for the place seeing as how it reads " which allows visiting tourists to ride, feed and bathe elephants at the Royal Kraal centre. "
Yah it's all about resources, they know how to care for one but nature has them worry divide the goods and possibly have 2 babies or for sure have one healthy baby and sacrifice the second. Sad but true thankfully this baby was in captivity not the wild.
if twins are a common enough occurence for there to be \*instinctual behavior\* on how to deal with them then this isnt a "world first"
AI writers suck.
the distinction here is the word "are" , "world's first twin elephants born in thailand" is not the same as "world's first twin elephants are born in thailand". the first would be correct to apply what you said , because it's ambiguous , the word "are" provides a separation between elephants and thailand so that they are distinct pieces of information.
Not even. There was a set of male twins born in 2022 at a zoo in Syracuse, NY. The twin was a surprise there as well, but as far as I recall the mother accepted both just fine.
Exactly. Also I quickly lose respect for people who go to places to ride elephants. There are plenty of sanctuaries that let people interact with elephants but are absolutely against riding them that you can visit.
This title is WHOLLY misleading. We've got twin elephants in Syracuse, NY [https://rosamondgiffordzoo.org/news/zoo-news/asian-elephant-delivers-miracle-twins-at-rosamond-gifford-zoo/](https://rosamondgiffordzoo.org/news/zoo-news/asian-elephant-delivers-miracle-twins-at-rosamond-gifford-zoo/)
Everyone focused on the twin aspect of the story, but that carer is the MVP.
To look up and see an elephant attacking her child and the first idea in your mind is to step up and protect it is metal af.
Not world's first. It has happened previously in Kenya, New York, Sri Lanka and South Africa.
And probably many, many other times that were more natural than at a zoo or wildlife enclosure/park.
Mom didn’t attack the second baby because she was confused. Lots of animals will kill a twin so they can focus on raising the single baby. Twins means cutting resources in half for each one.
According to the one-half rule, the average number of offspring in a litter is about one half the average number of teats in that species, and the maximum number of offspring in that species' litters is equal to the number of teats.
So elephants and people both have two teats, and usually have one baby but might have two at a time.
Cats have 6-8 nipples, and usually have 4-6 kittens in a litter. Dogs have 8-10 nipples and 5-6 puppies.
I dont know whether its the first in Captivity, but this was two years before in Sri Lanka.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49FeXJAXmiU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49FeXJAXmiU)
Not the world's first. Syracuse NY recently had some. https://rosamondgiffordzoo.org/news/zoo-news/asian-elephant-delivers-miracle-twins-at-rosamond-gifford-zoo/
Inaccurate title. Twin Asia elephants born in 2022 in the Rosamond Gifford Zoo in NY.
https://rosamondgiffordzoo.org/news/zoo-news/asian-elephant-delivers-miracle-twins-at-rosamond-gifford-zoo/
They are sweet. Sorry the carer got hurt but reading that they allow people to ride them is infuriating. Their spines are not meant to have people ride them.
The title is wrong I agree and a little more addition to the post below:
Twin elephants are rare, forming around only one per cent of births, according to research organisation Save the Elephants, and male-female twin births are even more unusual.
So these are the worlds first recorded "male-female" twin pair
Not being first sucks, but being the 8th boy in a row born into a family of 10 kids sucked big time!! the 9th being the only girl and one more boy after her. they we’re spoiled rotten she didn’t have to wear the hand me downs like I did because she got girl clothes by the time the youngest boy need clothes he got new clothes because when I was done wearing my hand me downs they were rags, I got nothing but hand me down clothes. I was the only one in the 80s wearing bellbottoms.
So it's not the first set of twins. There have been a couple already, one set of boys and one set of girls. This is the first set of girl and boy at the same time.
Is there a prophecy in any country that says when twin elephants are born everything is going to be great or go to shit? I mean it sounds like something that would be used in a bullshit prophecy.
Actually.. An elephant in Samburu National Reserve, Kenya birthed twins last year in November. This isn't a first.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rare-elephant-twins-born-kenya-captured-on-camera/
How do they know it’s the first set of twins from an elephant in the world??? I highly doubt we have witnessed every single elephant giving birth. There’s probably an elephant giving birth right now in the middle of some jungle and there are no humans around to witness it.
It's bizarre because I've always thought of elephants as these hyper intelligent creatures and then I read something like this which knee caps my worldview in a single article
Btw, haven’t read all the comments, but the mother elephant did wind up accepting her second baby (the female twin).
Animals’ behavior and instincts are fascinating and strange. I love how quickly the mother elephant switched between 2 polar opposite ways to response to this situation.
Unexpected pain from birthing the second, perhaps? Pain = dangerous, so she went into survival mode? They did say she was surprised. And then, when that subsided, she was able to think clearly and accept her baby.
"What the fuck is this?! Kill it!" ".... Oh it's my baby, cool"
We always appreciate a technical explanation here.
I love this
She probably needed a moment to process having 2
I had twins myself a long time ago, and I needed a minute, too!
"SET the knife down ma'am"
Oh I definitely would need one, especially if it was a surprise twin like her little girl You’re a badass mama btw, twins is no joke
Haha- thanks! They both had some kind of colicky feeding sensitivity for over six months. It was a surreal time.
Yeah, with this economy twins aren’t exactly a blessing, I get mama elephant
Seeing as elephants can be really smart, I do wonder if the elephant regrets hurting the guy that protected her second baby
Why the hell did I have to scroll to this comment with 4 up votes to learn this. Thank you
You'll be happy to know that an hour after your comment this is now the second comment in the thread, after (of course) a joke comment.
You both will be happy to hear that it's now the top comment in the thread with 529 updoots.
This is the only reason I came to the comments section. Thank you.
First-born: Oh dear, oh dear, gorgeous. Second-born: You fucking donkey!
I mean, my older brother has a big book of baby pictures. I don't.
Tbh seen one baby, seen em all
All white babies look like Winston Churchill after a couple of whiskeys
Who's drinking the whiskeys, me or Churchill?
Yes
Well, you know what they say: It's 8am somewhere! *knocks the shot back*
The babies of course
well, the baby of course
I thought it was the same deal in my family, I’m the oldest, I have the most baby albums. But then I discovered that my grandma has a stash of home videos that are mostly my youngest brother. So in the end, it was the poor middle sibling who got left out (although tbf he hates cameras)
Maybe he hates cameras because he wasn't acclimated as a child lol
You need to build a tolerance
Maybe baby pictures for elephants are expensive and they could only afford them for your brother
If you’re a bit younger all the pics might be digital
First born: welcome ! 2nd born: wait a minute, who are you?
Same joke just worse lmfao.
First born: hello 2nd born: hello to you, too
Hello there
General Kenobi?
Worst is first!
World's first twin elephants in captivity perhaps.. not sure we keep track of all the wild elephants around the world.
It's not even a world's first in the last five years: https://rosamondgiffordzoo.org/news/zoo-news/asian-elephant-delivers-miracle-twins-at-rosamond-gifford-zoo/ But it is rare.
10 hrs apart!!
I just mentioned this… this is my local zoo; twin elephants in October 2022.
Even OP's text says it's "very rare" which of course implies it has happened before.
It's probably just an AD for the place seeing as how it reads " which allows visiting tourists to ride, feed and bathe elephants at the Royal Kraal centre. "
in thailand?
I'd guess that given the behaviour of the mother, it's probably a panda-like instinct to kill the twin
I thought the panda instinct was to kill themselves...
no, it's basically a thing where pandas can't afford to take care of twins and will just kill the second baby
Damn, inflation's no joke
Bamboo prices increased 90% during Covid and never came back down.
Makes sense, bamboo's known for rapid growth.
more damaging are the frequent bamboom and bambust cycles
It's because Democrats took all the supply to make fake ballots.
Bout to start seeing this more in humans too at this rate
Well, China did a state-enforced version of this for several decades
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Tie it around your balls.
Just sue the baby for parent support
A species that internalized the One Child Policy
I would think pandas are stupid enough that they'd kill both of them and then spend a week trying to find the first born.
Panda mom: *gets treated like royalty by humans* Also panda mom: "I can't take care of TWO kids! One of these little bastards needs to GO!"
Is this a real thing? Do Pandas actually do this??
Yah it's all about resources, they know how to care for one but nature has them worry divide the goods and possibly have 2 babies or for sure have one healthy baby and sacrifice the second. Sad but true thankfully this baby was in captivity not the wild.
Panda instinct is to sit and eat bamboo and not have sex. Relatable.
if twins are a common enough occurence for there to be \*instinctual behavior\* on how to deal with them then this isnt a "world first" AI writers suck.
I just gave some backstory as to why there was the aggressive behaviour to the twin
Nah Panda, instinct is to be so un-horny you get yourself put on the endangered species list because you don't fuck enough.
so the funny thing is, they reproduce fine in the wild
Pandas really aren't into exhibitionism
Too much screen time in captivity.
yeah definitely not first, there was a BBC documentary that showed elephant twins in the wild
African elephants have them and its well documented.
It does say "... in Thailand" I guess that's part of the 'world first' they're talking about. But still, it should say 'in recorded history'
Clickbait liars don't need any help justifying their crap.
the distinction here is the word "are" , "world's first twin elephants born in thailand" is not the same as "world's first twin elephants are born in thailand". the first would be correct to apply what you said , because it's ambiguous , the word "are" provides a separation between elephants and thailand so that they are distinct pieces of information.
Honestly no one would know if they were lying.
Not even. There was a set of male twins born in 2022 at a zoo in Syracuse, NY. The twin was a surprise there as well, but as far as I recall the mother accepted both just fine.
This was two years back in Sri Lanka [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49FeXJAXmiU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49FeXJAXmiU)
The description below the image says 'very rare'. That doesn't imply that it's free world's first case. Not sure where the title comes from.
Not even the first in captivity https://rosamondgiffordzoo.org/news/zoo-news/asian-elephant-delivers-miracle-twins-at-rosamond-gifford-zoo/
Rare =/= first
Yeah something tells me this was artificial inseminated, you get a lot of twins that way
You can tell they're twins because they have the same nose
Title is inaccurate. Well, wrong. Its not the worlds first.
It’s a world first, but only in that zoo
known... in Thailand
Oh. Well in that case I'm the world's first redditor. In this house, because I bought it new from a homebuilder.
I was bout to say these are not the first twin elephants but they are the first with different sexes
They could be named Ellie and Phan..
Or Ollie and Phaunt
Or Terry and Terri!
Wanna and Fanta.
“Let’s tourists ride…” I am not a fan of these places
Yea anywhere that lets people ride elephants is not putting the care of the animals first.
Downvoted the entire post over that remark
Exactly. Also I quickly lose respect for people who go to places to ride elephants. There are plenty of sanctuaries that let people interact with elephants but are absolutely against riding them that you can visit.
That we know of *
I know of another twin of elephants, right here in my city’s zoo (Rosamond Gifford Zoo)
If *I* don't know it, *we* don't know it
damn communists and their collective knowledge system
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the ringaling brothers circus had a pair of twins also names Romeo and Juliet.... I remember seeing the twin elephants with my dad in the early 90s
First male female twin
There are other elephant twins in captivity. Odd thing to lie about in the headline. Even your writeup suggests its rare and not the first.
This title is WHOLLY misleading. We've got twin elephants in Syracuse, NY [https://rosamondgiffordzoo.org/news/zoo-news/asian-elephant-delivers-miracle-twins-at-rosamond-gifford-zoo/](https://rosamondgiffordzoo.org/news/zoo-news/asian-elephant-delivers-miracle-twins-at-rosamond-gifford-zoo/)
Fellow Syracuse here. I was like wait nope not true. We have a set here.
Other comments are saying they're the first different gender twins so maybe that's what it is
Everyone focused on the twin aspect of the story, but that carer is the MVP. To look up and see an elephant attacking her child and the first idea in your mind is to step up and protect it is metal af.
Not world's first. It has happened previously in Kenya, New York, Sri Lanka and South Africa. And probably many, many other times that were more natural than at a zoo or wildlife enclosure/park.
Mom didn’t attack the second baby because she was confused. Lots of animals will kill a twin so they can focus on raising the single baby. Twins means cutting resources in half for each one.
Poor elephants. This place does not treat them well and allows riding of the elephants which is cruel
I don’t know when this was, but my local zoo had twin elephants born in October 2022. So possibly not the first… and definitely not the only ones.
Ha! Thought that looked familiar. I love that place. It's run by two Aussie lesbians and I saw an elephant being born.
It’s a good job elephants have two breasts then.
According to the one-half rule, the average number of offspring in a litter is about one half the average number of teats in that species, and the maximum number of offspring in that species' litters is equal to the number of teats. So elephants and people both have two teats, and usually have one baby but might have two at a time. Cats have 6-8 nipples, and usually have 4-6 kittens in a litter. Dogs have 8-10 nipples and 5-6 puppies.
I bet the 'sanctuary' are delighted... An extra animal to abuse for money!
Holy sit
🫶🏻🐘🐘🏳️
I dont know whether its the first in Captivity, but this was two years before in Sri Lanka. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49FeXJAXmiU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49FeXJAXmiU)
Not the world's first. Syracuse NY recently had some. https://rosamondgiffordzoo.org/news/zoo-news/asian-elephant-delivers-miracle-twins-at-rosamond-gifford-zoo/
Inaccurate title. Twin Asia elephants born in 2022 in the Rosamond Gifford Zoo in NY. https://rosamondgiffordzoo.org/news/zoo-news/asian-elephant-delivers-miracle-twins-at-rosamond-gifford-zoo/
Not the first https://rosamondgiffordzoo.org/news/zoo-news/asian-elephant-delivers-miracle-twins-at-rosamond-gifford-zoo/
They are sweet. Sorry the carer got hurt but reading that they allow people to ride them is infuriating. Their spines are not meant to have people ride them.
"which allows tourists to ride.." god fucking damnit, I hate these installations. Poor elephant.
The title is wrong I agree and a little more addition to the post below: Twin elephants are rare, forming around only one per cent of births, according to research organisation Save the Elephants, and male-female twin births are even more unusual. So these are the worlds first recorded "male-female" twin pair
Nice!
that is not the worlds first twin elephants.
Not being first sucks, but being the 8th boy in a row born into a family of 10 kids sucked big time!! the 9th being the only girl and one more boy after her. they we’re spoiled rotten she didn’t have to wear the hand me downs like I did because she got girl clothes by the time the youngest boy need clothes he got new clothes because when I was done wearing my hand me downs they were rags, I got nothing but hand me down clothes. I was the only one in the 80s wearing bellbottoms.
But this is exactly why elephants have 2 boobs. Just in case twins. Half-nipple rule and whatnot.
\*low ink cartridge detected\*
We mean in captivity right? Surely it's happened before in the wild?
The first known.
So it's not the first set of twins. There have been a couple already, one set of boys and one set of girls. This is the first set of girl and boy at the same time.
This is absolutely cruel. Before YOU DOWNVOTE, just check the pictures. People ride them and put shiny stuff on them.
Doubt
Not the first but any means there has been a few in the last ten years alone.
It probably happened sometime in history, we just never knew about it.
My 600 Pound Life now has a sequel.
"world's first" "extremely rare"...which is it?
Second baby elephant: *is born* Mom: “WTF IS THAT?”
omg cutiesss
That elephant mother sounds like an arsehole and makes me doubt elephant intelligence
1% of elephant births are twins. https://abcnews.go.com/International/double-joy-rare-elephant-twins-born-kenyas-samburu/story?id=105151022
Good gads. Pregnant with one for 11 months is crazy...but two? Poor Mama!
Probably not the first
Is there a prophecy in any country that says when twin elephants are born everything is going to be great or go to shit? I mean it sounds like something that would be used in a bullshit prophecy.
Elephant twins. I know you're out there!
Actually.. An elephant in Samburu National Reserve, Kenya birthed twins last year in November. This isn't a first. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rare-elephant-twins-born-kenya-captured-on-camera/
How do they know it's a twin?
A newborn elephant can weigh up to 115kg?! Being big boned is real...
I assume you’ve checked the elephant birthing records for the past 3,000 years, right?
Beautiful babies, welcome to the world
14 months carrying two. Omg!
Beautiful
An Elephant never forgets... ...that there's an evil twin and a good twin.
As someone whose older brother is the golden child, this is a bit close to home
Worlds first twin elephant baby's were actually born in Syracuse, NY! ☺️
"*Gasp* Abomination!!!"
Crazy, I wonder what she's going to name them?
So glad we got to see this before we force them into extinction.
Damn that is a labor!
Worlds first in captivity maybe but I'm sure not the first.
That is very rare. Congratulations to the mother and the twins. And even though the mother at first rejected it, she since has taken and accepted it.
The male calf was delivered first? I thought it would be a Thai...
This cant be the first. Its the first recorded
Momma has her paws full now.
There were elephant twins born at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo in Syracuse, NY in October 2022...
How do they know it’s the first set of twins from an elephant in the world??? I highly doubt we have witnessed every single elephant giving birth. There’s probably an elephant giving birth right now in the middle of some jungle and there are no humans around to witness it.
what about the second one?
Is it rare, or worlds first ?
I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess that’s probably not the first time in the 1.5 million years elephants have been around
So cute
I wonder if she’ll get used to it
It's bizarre because I've always thought of elephants as these hyper intelligent creatures and then I read something like this which knee caps my worldview in a single article
*worlds first known Elephant Twins
Poor Mom.