VIDEO: Elephant Comes to Caretaker’s “Rescue”

Thongsri, the 17-year-old elephant in Chiang Mai, Thailand has formed a strong, serious bond with the man that takes care of her. That’s why when he and another man decide to fake an altercation, Thongsri comes running towards them to rescue her caretaker. The man pretending to attack him runs away and Thongrsi ends up circling the caretaker to make sure he stays unharmed. Animals are nothing but love.

Here are some fun facts you might not know about elephants, provided by happyelephantcontest.com.

• The largest elephant on record was an adult male African elephant. It weighed about 24,000 pounds and was 13 feet tall at the shoulder!

• Elephants can live to be over 70 years old.

• Only one mammal can’t jump — the elephant.

• The average weight for an elephant heart is about 27 to 46 pounds!

• Elephants have a highly developed brain and the largest of all the land mammals. The brain is 3 or 4 times larger than that of humans although smaller as a proportion of body weight.

• Elephants have a slow pulse rate of 27. For a canary it is 1000!

• An elephant’s skin is an inch thick.

• Elephants have poor eyesight but an amazing sense of smell.

• Elephants purr like cats do, as a means of communication.

• Elephants prefer one tusk over the other, just as people are either left or right-handed.

• Tusks are an elephant’s incisor teeth. They are used for defense, digging for water, and lifting things.

• Elephants have four molars, one on the top and one on the bottom on both sides of the mouth. One molar can weigh about five pounds and is the size of a brick!

Read Thongsri’s full story below, provided by Little Things.

Animals are a beautiful part of our world. Out in the wild, however, they can often find themselves in danger. And sometimes, when an entire species is in danger, they find themselves in sanctuaries or parks where they can be cared for instead.

These animals are tended to by a caretaker who usually stays with them for years. You may or may not be surprised to learn that this can create an incredible, lasting bond between the two of them.

Any animal, from a lions and tigers to elephants or monkeys, can become accustomed to interacting with humans, eventually learning from and with them.

Through all of the training, healing, and day-to-day tasks, they become friends and, in some ways, family.

In the video below, we get to look in on an elephant in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The elephant, Thongsri, is 17 years old and has clearly formed a very serious bond with her caretaker.

You can see it right away, when the caretaker and another man decide to fake an altercation.

As the caretaker is pushed to the ground and apparently “attacked,” Thongsri comes running toward them to rescue her caretaker. The man pretending to attack him runs away and Thongrsi ends up circling her caretaker to make sure that he stays unharmed.

Talk about a great bodyguard, right?

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