{"id":505781,"date":"2026-05-27T21:10:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T21:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/505781\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T21:10:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T21:10:26","slug":"watch-moment-lost-baby-elephant-reunited-with-herd-in-kenya-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/505781\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Moment lost baby elephant reunited with herd in Kenya | Lifestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the heartwarming moment a baby <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/elephant\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">elephant<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/kenya\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kenya<\/a> was reunited with its family after researchers located the missing herd.<\/p>\n<p>The two-month-old calf got separated from the herd while crossing the Ewaso Nyiro river in Samburu National Reserve, northern Kenya. Tourists saw him alone and raised the alarm, Save the Elephants, a research and conservation organisation in Kenya which works to secure a future for wild African elephants, said.<\/p>\n<p>The young elephant was caught and transported to where his family were grazing in Buffalo Springs, on the other side of the river, the charity added.<\/p>\n<p>Save the Elephants said their researcher Davido Letitiya, who has known the herd for years, noticed a calf was missing and put two and two together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA coat of fresh dung helped the family recognise their little one after more than three hours apart&#8230; [they] were cautious at first, then welcomed him home. He was even seen nuzzling his mother and playing with the other calves,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about Save the Elephants &#8211; <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.savetheelephants.org\/\">www.savetheelephants.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the heartwarming moment a baby elephant in Kenya was reunited with its family after researchers located&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[273],"tags":[212537,196316,27125,18,4507,2306,127769,789,19,17,194887,166266,20181,103514,212538,237,432,133,4335,119,86069,1294,461],"class_list":["post-505781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-aston-villa-f-c","tag-club-soccer","tag-color-image","tag-eire","tag-england","tag-english-premier-league","tag-full-length","tag-horizontal","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-match-sport","tag-morgan-gibbs-white","tag-morgan-rogers","tag-nottingham","tag-nottingham-forest-f-c","tag-people","tag-photography","tag-science","tag-soccer","tag-sport","tag-two-people","tag-uk","tag-wildlife"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116648596120448368","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}