Animals Galore! Episode 10: African Elephant

Greetings, and welcome to the tenth episode of Animals Galore! On this special episode, We're going to take a look at the largest living land animal, the African elephant. Because of their size, an elephant must consume an enormous amount of food to survive. An adult can eat up to 600 pounds in a single day. Lucky for us- -they're vegetarian. Elephants are the only land animal that cannot jump. They are so heavy, that they can't lift all four legs off the ground at the same time. Elephants will often throw dirt on themselves with their trunks. These are dust baths, which act as a natural sunscreen for their sensitive skin. An elephant's trunk is actually a fusion of its nose and upper lip. The trunk is made up of 40,000 individual muscles, whereas a human's entire body contains a mere 639! With a nose that strong, they must have a great sense of smell! As a matter of fact, they do! Elephants can smell water from up to three miles away.

True or False: Elephants are afraid of mice. The answer is false, this is nothing more than a popular myth. However, elephants are terrified of bees and I can definitely see why. BARRY: "You like Jazz?" Luke: (Shudders in disgust).

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Why so many African Elephants Don't Survive their First Year

Across Africa, from Namibia to Uganda, elephant babies are trying to keep their heads above water, trying to suckle, to keep up with the herd, to make it to adulthood. But one third of baby elephants will die in this first year of life. And sometimes the threat to a baby's survival comes from within the herd. It's been a good year. The elephant herds of Uganda are increasing. In the 1980s, they were poached to the brink of extinction in the country.

Now there are more than 5000 individuals. The land is green. There's plenty to eat. Newborns are almost lost in the grass. It takes a whole herd to raise a baby elephant. Female elephants help look after each other's calves. It's called alloparenting. In the process, young females learn how to care for their siblings and calves are given a better chance of survival. The babies are born after almost two years of gestation. This long development time gives them another survival advantage. They can stand and walk immediately after birth so they can reach their mother's milk. They will rely on it for the first year. Each day, the baby elephant gains almost 1kg, or two pounds of body weight. Scientists have discovered that the composition of elephant milk differs from that of all other mammals, as well as being different for Asian and African elephants. It actually changes as the baby grows. The protein, mineral and fat content increases during lactation, providing more energy as the baby develops. But despite the best care a herd can offer, about one third of baby elephants will die in this first year of life.

They will never reach adulthood. There are many threats. Water, the thing elephants need the most can also kill them. Adults need to drink up to 189 liters, or 50 gallons a day. Despite the raging torrent, the family has to cross, but babies can't swim until they're several months old. Adults have evolved ways to push their young along. They used their trunks like arms to usher them to safety. In Namibia, water isn't always plentiful, but elephants can smell it from up to around 19 kilometers or 12 miles away. This herd is making a beeline for a man-made watering spot in Etosha National Park. A new study has found that in warm weather, elephants can lose up to 10% of all the water in their bodies. That equates to about two full bathtubs a day, the highest level of daily water loss ever recorded in a land mammal. It's a relief to drink, but still, the herd must stay alert. Baby elephants are intelligent little beings, but they aren't born with the instinct to use their most important appendage - their trunk. They can't use it to grasp food or to suck up water.

This can make drinking awkward and precarious. A youngster falls into the trough. He calls to alert the adults. The herd reacts in unison. The water isn't deep, but the panicked baby could easily drown. The trough is narrow and hard to access. The females can only watch on while the youngster remains stuck. Many trunks, but no rescue, until a mature female finally lifts him to safety. Even at natural waterholes, like this one in Namibia, where there's plenty of room to move, female elephants must stay calm when dealing with emergencies so as not to panic others in the herd, especially their calves. Mud baths should be enjoyable, not traumatic. This matriarch gives a youngster a helping trunk, a lesson for baby and another young member of the herd. But Elephant Society isn't always so cooperative. Researchers at Mushara Waterhole in Namibia have witnessed a darker side of the elephants' nature where danger doesn't lie outside the herd, but within it.

This baby and his mother are chased away from the water by the matriarch. The calf just wants some fun, but he sent back to his mother by the other females. Despite living with the herd for the last 5 years, the mother is left to care for her baby alone. Most of the herd begins to move on, turning their backs on the mother and her calf. Two females even throw irritating dust at the parent. The baby has become weak. The stress of rejection may have left the mother unable to produce enough milk.

The calf needs to drink around 2 litres of milk every 2 hours. He's getting weaker by the second and is now unable to stand up to feed. If he doesn't drink soon, he will die of dehydration. Why is this baby destined to die while others are saved? Researchers think this cruel behavior is evidence of a pecking order within the herd. Each elephant has their place in the hierarchy and that status is passed down through generations. This isn't in keeping with our perception of elephant behavior, Herds can break up in places where poaching occurs, but not usually in places like this, where the herd is protected and there's enough food and water.

Here in the Namibian desert, resources are scarce. No baby gets left behind. Each one of them is precious. Elephant herds are complex societies. We can only observe and try to understand the dynamics at work within them. In understanding their behaviour at much deeper levels, we may also be able to help them survive. Thanks for watching. We have more interesting videos about elephants, so check out our playlist and please consider subscribing. We have a new upload every Friday..

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Masaka Kids Africana Dancing Stronger When United ft. Karina Palmira & Mjemjay

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FOX Food Spotlight: Afrobites food truck brings African flare to LR

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stay cool. Next week. >> All right. It is time for our FOX food spotlight. And today we're talking about unique food truck here in Little Rock called Afro Bites. Joining us now is deer to tell us more about what's going on here. The smells delicious. Thank you for good morning. So tell me what you here. So today we brought the sample. >> You know, different items that we got in the truck. So we've got chicken with some coconut bras could the We've got to famous. Jennifer Ice know a lot us with some see it. You can some meat patties and we just got a lot of the good options to to the community to to okay. And we've got a bunch sides to call the green people know plant and saying like a piece too. Curry what I'm doing. So I kind of think cities. So this was have discuss, OK, I'm in a time. agenda, powerful tropical ginger pineapple good also have some dessert. a it might go Okay.

All right. So where you guys located to look at it on 17? 0, 2, right of rock. I hear you guys always have a long line outside. So are your hours? What are you guys? So we opened Friday Sunday, Sunday on the weekend. >> From 11:00PM to 06:00PM, OK, but we have a lot of truck that we're going to banks and kids are also if so, what's so high that catering for that perfect. So what would you say is your number one seller more unsettled by far is to Jennifer Rice and see what you can and the 2 sides usually because green and the Pantano to block out So what of long have you guys been around for dinner on UN have almost 2 years, OK? So we started running to the pandemic we've been going since what made you guys decide to open up a food truck.

So the men was and is, you know, has One of the main thing we do is we like to share, you know, whatever he's given to you, you have to share it. But the people. So we've been here quite a while. And we decided to show up at a I love it. I think that that is so good so grant will talk about his like spiced is it is. It's not lot of these bison. So yes, spices, but in a spicy I can I can taste the spices. There's some good year so that that's very. But we've got a hot sauce that made from scratch everything that was custom got hot sauce on the side. Somebody once piracy that can have an on-side man. Okay. This is really good. So I yeah, we're going to definitely check you guys out. So again, what you know, again, where years some 17? 0, 2, right of me in Little Rock, Arkansas. And how can they contact you guys if they want on Yeah. And no real Instagram to become contact is there we have available for

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AFRICAN TRIBAL MARKET | Beer & Food Market | Part 2 | Indian in Ethiopia | Hindi | Omo Valley

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And... She is selling the clay which is used to colour hair. It is colour. These shoes are made from tyres. You must have seen it many times on Instagram OR Facebook. He's saying, they use one shoe for ten years. This shoe costs about INR100–120. These pots are used to make local beer. Injera is a very famous Ethiopian dish. You can compare it with bread. Injera usually looks like a big bread. That is used to make Injera. This is their butter market. They make this butter out of cow milk. This is Honey. She doesn't want to show us the honey. She is saying, first, give the money and buy it then see it. It tastes exactly like normal butter, but it has a lot of dirt.

So, I'm not considering eating it. This is their local beer. This is the special beer of Omo Valley that these people make themself. They tried explaining its ingredients in their language, but I could not understand. But it must have the normal process for making beer with some of their own unique ingredients. She is pouring beer in it, which they will drink. We are trying their local beer here. It has a mild taste of alcohol, it is a bit sour. It is sour, a little like alcohol and it is not very smooth to drink..

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Fashion Unpicked: couture ensemble by Imane Ayissi | V&A

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One of the most exciting things  about Imane Ayissi, is I always think   elegance, I always think style.  But there's something deceptively   simple about his silhouette, so  they're always very eye-catching. So this wonderful fuchsia pink ensemble  is by the couturier Imane Ayissi, who's   originally from the Cameroon, and one of the key  features of Imane Ayissi's work is this wonderful   coming together of textile traditions from  the continent, so you see here this fabulous   Cameroonian raffia, and he blends that  with Parisian haute couture details,   so it's almost this coming together  of two worlds that you see. But to really understand the beauty of this form,  we need to see it flat. We need to understand   how Imane Ayissi has created this. One of the things that I love about Imane  Ayissi is once you know that his background   was as a ballet dancer, you start to see this  understanding of the way that the body moves   in the way that he cuts his  work, so this piece is wonderful,   very simple at first glance, three metre  length of silk and raffia trim comes to   life when it's worn, so you get a sense of his  understanding of the body and movement.

Whether   that's the sound that the raffia makes  for example or the fluidity of the silk. These wonderful circles that you see  here these are actually the armholes,   so you put your arms through it and  then you swathe the fabric around you. You also get the sense of his mother's influence.  So Imane Ayissi's mother was the first Miss   Cameroon, so also known as Miss Independence,  so this was in 1960. So in fact he learned his   first cutting skills by dismantling her garments  and reconstructing them, then eventually making   clothes for her. But you do get a sense of someone  that has lived with women that are elegant. It's really interesting to try and discover  how it's been made, because it is deceptively   simple. But I know that raffia – bagging out  raffia and silk is actually quite tricky.   But what's gorgeous is it's so neatly made.

There  are no raw edges anywhere. All of the ends of the   raffia have been sandwiched between the two layers  of silk. Normally when you bag out a garment or a   shawl like this one you always have to have, or  you have to leave an opening, through which you   turn the garment or you turn the shawl through to  create this lovely neat finish. We can't find the   join! So we've searched this this piece and we  cannot find the join. It's so neatly handmade. One of the things that I love about this piece,  and one of the first things I notice is the length   of the raffia. You can tell by the length of  the raffia and the evenness of the raffia that   he's clearly using the best quality.

So imagine a  palm leaf. The tip and the base are the shortest   lengths of the leaf – of the fibre. But the middle  sections are always the most expensive because   they're the longest. And so what's lovely is that  you have these lovely long lengths of raffia that   he's used on this garment, rather like many of  the traditionally wrapped garments or the simple   rectangular garments like the agbada the  toghu or the boubou, you have to stand tall   and to be able to wear them.

You have to  be aware of your body to be able to keep   them looking good, so you get this sense of an  appreciation of a strong woman standing tall,   with poise, with elegance – to be able to carry  off this deceptively simple style that he has.   So I think he has an understanding of  silhouette as well as the body and movement,   which you'll see with this piece  when we look at it on the mannequin. What's really exciting about this ensemble it's  made of two pieces. The top in inverted commas,   and the tailored trousers. So the top's actually  the the rectangle – that long three metre length   of silk that we saw, and it's been almost  put on in a reverse fashion.

So you've put   your arms through, and then this neckline is  created by the fold of fabric as it falls down   and then lands around at your waist level. And  then this is then pulled around to the back. You   can see it following the line of the body here. It comes around and is secured by the tiny   hook and eye fastening and these rouleau loops  that keep it in place around your shoulders. I love the way that the fabric circles the  body and almost encloses the body – encases   it – and the way it flows around the arm to  create that waterfall effect and that swoop   of fuchsia pink silk at the  back. It's almost aquiline. You get a sense of her almost frozen in motion,   and the fluidity of the silk is just  gorgeous the way it falls around your arms. Underneath it's worn with this fabulous  pair of wide leg tailored trousers,   beautifully cut, beautifully balanced  – a high waist design you can see here,   it comes right up into this above the  small of the back, way above the waist. So again these touches that  for me are markers of elegance.

I do love the way that he's playing  with textures. You get the rustle   of the raffia and then you he fuses that with a  lovely shot silk – that sheen of the shot silk   and that fabulously sharp crease in the trouser,  so it's a wonderful use of subtle texture there. What's lovely is that you can  rearrange the drape and have   more of the raffia showing if you want to,  for a more dramatic effect at the back. Looking more closely at the overall silhouette  it's wonderfully dramatic, but I think you also   get a sense of Imane Ayissi's influences.  And he cites as his influences couturiers like   Givenchy or Balenciaga, Madeleine Vionnet,  and I think particularly in this ensemble,   I think with the draping – that lovely fold  swooping down into the waterfall at the back   is an element of Vionnet about that. But I think  the structure – that almost boat neck – almost   50's boat neck effect that he's created through  the fold, for me, is a reminder of Balenciaga.

The thing that marks Imane Ayissi out for me is –  yes he's chosen to be part of the couture system,   but he's always very vocal about wanting to dress   all women and taking references from many  cultures. That for me marks him out amongst   many of the other creatives on the continent –  this cleaving to cultural mixing, this desire   to dress all women. And in doing so  rewriting what African fashions can be..

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African Soldiers Allegedly Killed in Ukraine, Ethiopia Returning 100,000 Citizens, Zambia Medic Dies

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questioning working   conditions has threatened to sue the parent  company meta for wrongful determination of   his contract mr daniel mortung a former content  moderator for the social media platform claimed   he was fired for trying to organize a trade union  with his 100 co-workers in the nairobi office to   protest what they felt were exploitative working  conditions his lawyers say the letter put the two   firms on notice of a forthcoming legal suit for  violating the rights of kenyan and international   staff noting it was their constitutional right  to form a union content moderators like daniel   are the most important and least discussed aspects  of facebook global operations their job is to sift   through the social media posts of facebook's  nearly 3 billion monthly users and remove   posts that violates its rules such as graphic  violence hate and misinformation it's stated   ethiopia ethiopia begins a drive to return a  hundred thousand migrants from saudi arabia   ethiopia has started a new drive to repatriate  tens of thousands of migrants working in saudi   arabia the first batch of 498 women and children  returnees were received on by senior government   officials at adi sababa's main airport it follows  reports of undocumented migrants being subjected   to inhumane treatment in the middle east  country including detention in squalid centers   the ethiopian authorities hope to repatriate a  hundred thousand nationals back home over the   next 11 months the government has come under  criticism particularly in social media for not   doing enough on the plight of ethiopian migrants  in saudi arabia rwanda rwanda takes in 120   migrants from libya nearly 120 asylum seekers have  been evacuated from libya to rwanda in the first   such flight of the year the group of men women and  children the youngest less than one year old were   from eretria sudan south sudan and somalia most  had been living in urban areas of libya's capital   tripoli and others had been arbitrarily held in  detention some for several months the group will   join another 269 refugees and asylum seekers  in gashora where the u.n refugee agency unhcr   provides assistance including shelter food and  medical care detainees in various libyan migrant   centers have previously described routine torture  rape malnutrition and the spread of diseases like   tuberculosis because of conditions they are forced  to endure there rwanda has taken in more than 900   asylum seekers since mid-2019 when it signed  an agreement with unhcr in the african union   ghana ghana parliament approves controversial  e-levy bill ghana's parliament has approved a   new contested tax on electronic transactions  known as the e-levy the bill will introduce a   one point five percent taxation on electronic  money transfers president nana akofuado's   government claims it will help raise over  900 million dollars and address the problems   of unemployment and high public debt but for 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