Wild Kratts
African Elephant: Food and Health
Clip | 1m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
Chris and Martin encounter elephants spraying mud and sand on themselves to keep cool
The Kratts see a herd of elephants in a pool of mud trying to keep cool. Chris climbs a tree to jump in but an elephant knocks it down, trying to get at branches to eat and showing their bulldozer-like strength.
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Wild Kratts
African Elephant: Food and Health
Clip | 1m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
The Kratts see a herd of elephants in a pool of mud trying to keep cool. Chris climbs a tree to jump in but an elephant knocks it down, trying to get at branches to eat and showing their bulldozer-like strength.
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- Check out the way the elephant spray themselves with mud and sand.
The sand keeps the bugs off them, and the mud keeps them cool on hot days like today.
Oh sounds like a good idea to me.
- (laughter) Are you cooler now?
- Yep, and muddier.
You should try it.
- I think I will.
Oh, all right, mud cannon ball here I come.
Whoa!
What's going on?
- The elephants trying to get some leaves to eat.
- Does it have to be this tree?
(tree crashing) (big splash) - [Martin] Whoa.
(crashing tree) - [Chris] Elephants have the strength of a bulldozer.
- Yeah if they can't reach the branches they wanna eat, they just knock down the whole tree.
- And look how strong their trunk is.
That's a huge branch he just ripped off.
- [Martin] Hey who needs hands when you have a trunk.
- Yeah, trunks can do way more things than hands can.
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