Nzou's story : She was an orphan in the 1970's and they had no elephants in the sanctuary. She was surprisingly adopted by a herd of buffalo the did have. Since that time she has become the herd's leader and protector. There is now an elephant herd in the sanctuary and though they try to interact with her she wants nothing to do with them. She is happy with her buffalo family, and loves to lead and protect them. The youngsters in the herd are 5th generation! So you could say she was also a very GREAT grandmother.

@squnk3613

Жыл бұрын

in the doc, they say that she hasnt seen another elephant in 15 years. I was going to say, this is a great set up, but i wonder if it would be best for her if she was with other elephants. If its true there is another heard on the reserve and she wasnt interested in interacting with them. Then for sure i would leave her there. That still seems like a crapy set up for those bulls though.

@buasanmahat

Жыл бұрын

,=

@sureshpeiris5929

Жыл бұрын

Great Story.Thank You.❤❤❤❤❤

@danielkimuyu3044

Жыл бұрын

She also needs another elephant companion even though she leads the buffalos herd.

@najiayaakter2738

Жыл бұрын

ুঊূ

Nzou should have been sent straight to an elephant sanctuary when she was a baby. It sounds as though her needs for social structure and contact have never been fully met, despite the most loving intentions of her caregivers.

@samanthav8728

4 жыл бұрын

DSWT would have been so perfect for her, I agree totally!

@jacksprat429

4 жыл бұрын

spiralrose I absolutely agree. She needs to be amongst her own kind. She needs a baby of her own.

@hellosweetheart3350

4 жыл бұрын

@@jacksprat429 I never was able to have a child, everyone copes😉

@jacksprat429

4 жыл бұрын

Hello Sweetheart I am sorry to hear that, and yes, everyone copes. I appreciate that. However, we are speaking about a wild animal, who is not with her own kind. That should at least be the ultimate goal, to get her to a sanctuary with her own species. It is not even about her not having a baby of her own, but blending in with an elephant herd, not a buffalo herd.

@gilliandarling9239

4 жыл бұрын

hse needs elephants for sure

It's so clear how much more emotional elephants are... So sweet how she was running around looking for them, and how happy she was she found them...

@parthasarathykhiriya

Жыл бұрын

Also how happy see was when she was trying to kill the calf

@bevfrench3496

Жыл бұрын

@@parthasarathykhiriya that is what i thought....if those buffalo are so valuable, why are they letting her kill bulls and babies? that just doesn't make sense. Crate her and get her out of there and slowly introduce to a herd of her own kind.

@thatindiandude4602

11 ай бұрын

​@@bevfrench3496we already see consequences of killing of bull elephants on younger males. Who knows what killing cape buffalo bulls are going to do.

@arielthepom

11 ай бұрын

@@bevfrench3496 she protects the human and saved his life. so in return she keeps him safe and he keeps her there.

It's well known Elephants are extremely family orientated staying together beyond death. My heart fills with grief and concern for her...she needs her own kind she needs to be an Elephant!

@666niraK

Жыл бұрын

There are other elephants but she chooses to be with the buffaloes.

@GenXstacker

Жыл бұрын

She identifies as a buffalo. Her pronouns are moo/cow 😁

@AnitaDil

Жыл бұрын

She’s been fine all these years, it would cause her more grief to be wrenched away from this family.

@lennarthagen3638

Жыл бұрын

Lies, she can be with elephants

@robintodd2448

Жыл бұрын

@@lennarthagen3638🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

At first i wanted her to be re wilded, but she seems very happy, loved and cared for, she has a great life!

Fun Facts: Elephants and buffalos are among two large mammals on land who had great memory/high intelligence by remembering even a dark past that affected them emotionally (i.g: for losing their close members of the herd) as they will never forget something that damages their lives and as a matter of fact, both animals have proven to be great to amazing parents at best regarding their parental care to their young as they are the best mothers in the natural world. And the moral of the story: Both of them will never forget something!

@FeezFBaby

8 ай бұрын

Nah Buffaloes are dumb as hell! Elephants are hella smart I'll give u that! But African Buffaloes is super dumb lol

Awwwww 😔 I'm dying inside watching this beautiful elephant's affection being rejected 😔 🐘 ❤

What an absolutely lovely story. So unique and so special. Bless

why would they not just put her with some elephants so she can have friends? This is so sad. Also how did it take them 15 dead bulls to realize they should keep them apart?

@HelixMaster12

6 жыл бұрын

Elephants have to learn how to socialize, a lot like how we have to. Nzou also might not even be able to speak her own language either, and it'll be very hard to learn it at 26 years.

@eksine

5 жыл бұрын

Don't forget she killed 4 calf's too. There is no other elephant like her in the world that's why. I was thinking about getting a pet elephant, I changed my mind

@carolynbohannon4602

4 жыл бұрын

I think they are experimenting... why else would they not put her with her own kind.....

@cdnsk12

4 жыл бұрын

It seems like a lot of "BULL" to me ...

@phoenixdavida8987

4 жыл бұрын

@@cdnsk12 hyuck hyuck hyuck...

What a remarkable story! I was surprised that she didn't trumpet when she found the herd again. It's like she just came in like a nurturing mom with no fanfare. So great that the owner takes in all animals. Really fantastic that there are people who don't work for their own benefit but for the benefit of others. Wow, she killed that many bulls?!

This is a sad documentary.. Nzou need to be with the herd elephants. She need elephants families that will protect her from predators.

@lindalee7322

4 жыл бұрын

I agree with you.

@moewilson4605

4 жыл бұрын

I agree too. She has killed 15 male buffalo, a few babies, and longs for touch, something the buffalo do not do.

@madden8021

4 жыл бұрын

Elephants can also die from broken hearts :(

@jman4668

4 жыл бұрын

Elephants have no predators besides humans

@Quandaledingleberg

3 жыл бұрын

@Not interested to tell my name a 6000 pund elephant can easily kill a 420 pound lion

I love how she loses her herd then frantically finds them and gets her daily Lovins all over again ❤️

@Rizal12061986

8 ай бұрын

she can't have her own cub, so sometime she kill the buffalo cub. she can't get any male (elephant) so she kill the male bull. in a nutshell, she is a sad, lonely, and jealous feminist boss babe

Now days u can become anything u want! A elephant can even become a buffalo! 😍😄

@user-pi1xd9ob4x

5 жыл бұрын

Damn right. Animal rights. Elephant rights.

@xxx_a_shxxx

4 жыл бұрын

Yes. Absolutely yes

@tonylong5024

4 жыл бұрын

sad but true

@FizzledDreams11

3 жыл бұрын

😂 I love this 🤣

Znou needs her own family that will touch her back. She needs emotional friends just like her

Nzou is the elephant version of the crazy cat lady.

@samanthav8728

4 жыл бұрын

Bahahahaa! Riight

@interestedineverything7251

4 жыл бұрын

Best answer on the internet! LMAO

@booper3439

4 жыл бұрын

Lmaooooo!!!

@LeticiaSPandaMcfly6

4 жыл бұрын

Aweee 😂

@sadielcala

2 жыл бұрын

Jaaaaaaaaaa

I don’t know why tears in my eyes, while watching this Videos. Can we not be compassionate like these animal? Long live Africa.

What an amazing video, to see elephants and buffalo and even people living together. These caretakers have the best jobs.

Wow! Truly miraculous! I click these alerts immediately, such entertainment & teaching & wildlife appreciation ♥️ Morimbiwa is an angel 🙌😇

ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS VIDEO 😊🍂🐘🍃🤎

Please get dear ELEPHANT TO A SANCTUARY. And soon! Then she'll be around others like her:-)

@lunamaria1048

4 жыл бұрын

She has never been around others.. The Buffalo are her family

@xxx_a_shxxx

4 жыл бұрын

Yes Lunamaria yes

@sherifnour183

4 жыл бұрын

i think its not that easy they will reject her

From the comments you realize that it takes some people watching over 1 documentary to become an expert in elephants, amazing!

I LOVE NZOU and pray she gets to an ELEPHANT SANCTUARY LIKE THE ONE LEK HAS IN THAILAND. Surely there are some in AFRICA.

@monsieurlaflamme995

4 жыл бұрын

2dasimmons you sound ignorant as fuck. Africa is a content. Imagine not an elephant sanctuary in a whole continent? The one that built pyramids

@samwarmate9291

4 жыл бұрын

Monsieur LaFlamme ,well how many have we black Africans set up? The pyramids were built by the Arabs and are only found in North Africa and not throughout Africa.

@tidimalomoeketsi507

4 жыл бұрын

Sam Warmate you also sound ignorant sir. I live in South Africa and know about 8 elephant sanctuaries in my country yet we also have the famous Kruger national park where we let a lot of wild animals roam free something you wouldn’t understand because you love western culture clearly !!!

@jasonmcgrath205

4 жыл бұрын

@@samwarmate9291 what r u talking about, u have no idea who built the pyramids

@cameronhowe1110

7 ай бұрын

@@samwarmate9291plenty exists in Africa. Leave your racism at the door, please.

Nzou needs to become a mother herself, perhaps she is jealous

@jgg59

4 жыл бұрын

It’s instinctual there are no male elephants in an elephant herd!

@Humanaut.

4 жыл бұрын

I also spontaneously thought about jealousy

@lathanledchumanar4768

4 жыл бұрын

@@jgg59 😞😕👁😜🤑😝😝🤐🗯😯😪😪

@kaylew108

4 жыл бұрын

That's what I'm thinking. It might have something to do with her never mating and having young of her own and this whole situation has thrown off her natural instincts and causing her to kill young buffalo that aren't excepting of her by their own instincts

@colintainter4856

4 жыл бұрын

John Gerard Griffith yeah the no males thing makes sense. The killing of the other calves doesn’t really make sense though. In full elephant herds, mothers are usually very tolerant of other mother’s calves.

That was such an awesome documentary. I love elephants and it was so precious to learn about buffalos too. Tnank YOU!!!

According to the Imire Black Rhino and Wildlife Conservation area, they did try putting Nzou with other elephants. (I don't know why this documentary said that she'd never seen another elephant; maybe they suspect the game reserve lied about it?) It's not as simple as just dropping Nzou off at an elephant sanctuary, though. The Wildlife Conservation area said they attempted several times to encourage Nzou to become part of their elephant herd, but she would not respond to the other elephants in Imire at all, likely because she no longer understood what they were saying. She is content with the buffalo herd and, as long as they accept her as a leader, she is happy to be their matriarch. Obviously the situation isn't ideal for Nzou or the herd, but I'm not sure there is a better option for her after decades with her buffalo family. Like they mentioned in the doc, allowing her to become pregnant could also be fatal; she's never learned how elephants mate, gestate, or raise a calf. This is an article about it from 2014: Elephant who thinks she's a buffalo- joins herd from different species dailym.ai/1mbop1I

Wonderful story. The emotions of animals are seen in many strange ways. Awesome. 🎉

This is a nice documentary. It was quite different to see an elephant living with buffalo family and there is nothing to say against it if that is what the elephant wants.

Most precious documenty i ever have listen...

This elephant should have beer introduced to a herd long ago. An injustice seems to be done here.

@58nunzi

5 жыл бұрын

@@elijahvargas6338 You're ignorant. Sandra is right. Do some research.

@user-pi1xd9ob4x

5 жыл бұрын

The whole affair is total bull.

@eviedoowup4959

5 жыл бұрын

Jose Cuervo (1795) , much better then beer.

@glendaperkins9231

4 жыл бұрын

Especially when I notice being chained up, the elephant is to suit their purposes and their needs, who knows that maybe the reason why they have the elephant in the first place. It's said time and again Nzou is to important. This situation is totally business, it's nothing like being taken in giving a animal a home and allowing that animal if it chooses to live amongst its own kind. They do not have Nzou best interests. Keeping her from her kind is not good for her, I have a feeling Nzou's life will end when there's no need for her anymore. I hope not.

@clairecolvin4077

3 жыл бұрын

Perhaps you should have taken up roots, and gone over there to show the experts how it needs to be done... I AM sure all nationals from the area would stop and listen to your opinions, on how they went wrong...

This is such an incredible story! Thanks so much for sharing this!

@Rizal12061986

8 ай бұрын

she can't have her own cub, so sometime she kill the buffalo cub. she can't get any male (elephant) so she kill the male bull. in a nutshell, she is a sad, lonely, and jealous feminist boss babe

Fascinating....we have so much to learn from elephants. Thanks

Very Beautifully documented. Please move the elephant to her crowd so that she can also live happily..

"Sir, the elephant has just killed our 13th bull, what do you want us to do?" "Throw the 14th in there. I think she's starting to come around."

@sadielcala

2 жыл бұрын

She actually did it after her 150th kills, we all cry out that day and gave thanks to mother earth and to Greta Thunberg for this, we did it for the planet and one day we will succeed

Why is this elephant on her own, without her own kind? What is going to happen when her career ( he is the only one that can get near her when she needs to be controlled?) dies???

@xxx_a_shxxx

4 жыл бұрын

Are you from Australia because I’m Australian!

Yes she should of been put with her own kind... EXSPECIALLY since she desires touch an companship/family. It's an ODDLY WONDERFUL STORY. I Really enjoyed it.

Nothing about the Elephant and buffalo's lives make any sense except the situation probably makes money and a little notoriety for the sanctuary/ranch owner. Well that's the way I see it.

@user-pi1xd9ob4x

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly.

@jasonthurston799

4 жыл бұрын

Not sure about that, perhaps they would make more money with the increased successful reproduction rate if she wasn't their killing bills and calves. I think we know why the younger buffalo don't like her as much as the older ones. I wonder if it bothers her that the calves are not recognizing her as the leader rather than their mother or perhaps it's only the male calves being killed.

Hello from India 🇮🇳, Congrats 👌👍

My favorite wildlife interactions between different animals: 1- Elephant & buffalo 2- Zebra & wildebeest 3- Impala & Oxpecker 4- Giraffe & Oxpecker 5- Baboon & Impala 6- Everyone & Ostrich 7- Giraffe & Impala 8- Elephant & Baboon 9- Moongose & Warthog 10- Topi antelope & Thompson Gazelle

Fascinating story .Thank you 😊

For cape buffalos, elephants are by far their closest and great allies in the wild, as well as good buddies that respect each other !🐃🐘

@Boomslang1

10 ай бұрын

Not really. They don't interact on friendly terms at all in the wild. Even here, you heard that Nzou killed 15 prize Buffalo bulls.

Please keep Nzou safe!!! Better still bring her to an elephant sanctuary where she can be amongst her own. Let her be with an elephant family.

So wonderful so amazing

Nzou is a Kamba tribe word for elephant in kenya 🇰🇪 and I love this tri party bonding. It's unique

I wonder about the kindness of the buffalos. Humans always dream how they suffer other humans and innocent animals.But they never dream how to erradicate the traditional deadly enemies of the innocent animals . Lions,different cats,crocodiles,snakes eagles and other carniverous wild animals are their fierce enemies. ....................................... How pleasant it is to see the calves and their parents live without fear..! __________________________________________________________________________________ I hate Humans as well as crocodiles , many different cats and snakes. .......I AM ERITREAN......

Magnificent video!

Subscribed your channel. Looks amazing

One of the most interesting nature docs I’ve seen!!

My god, I'm going to love this.

poor elephant.. such social animals

Great story, thank you.

😆❤️lmao i can't stop lmao she's so funny! I'm not even 8minutes in yet lmao she cracks me up! This girl is hilarious lmao😆❤️👊 I love her!!!smh😆lol *She'd blend best with her own kind, a herd of elephants. They'd likely stop all that aggression she displays towards any buffalo but the female. A herd of elephants would never tolerate that behavior unless she was their matriarch and that's not likely. I hope one day she does get to go be with her own kind, it hurts my heart that she's not with em now. The idea that she may not know she's an elephant would go out the window immediately if she ever we're to meet just one other elephant. Aww what i wouldn't give to witness that❤️😲 As sweet and caring as this man is to her and as tolerant as the buffalo are, she needs elephants💔😞 she needs a herd I think.

Hermoso Elefante 🤩😍🐘🤗♥️

Cute and tragic at the same time

🎉 ❤🎉 so cute and so great relationship 🎉❤🎉

By far, this was one of the most interesting documentaries about an elephant! Poor thing, she really does not know how to be an elephant, and she is failing at how to be a rhinoceros!... Funny and sad at the same time.

Lol, find this elephant a elephant herd

@patriciahaines5151

5 жыл бұрын

1SuperLOL I agree

Great story where man respects and helps the animal kingdom for once.

i love it ... 🤩

Magnificent video

What an amazing story

Amazing!

Very interesting !!

i’ll bet if Znou were to have her own calf, she would not only not attack her calf but she would also stop attacking the buffalo calves. She may attack the buffalo calves because she’s jealous she cannot have her own offspring.

@paradiseagent5881

4 жыл бұрын

*Nzou

@bethschaefer18

4 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing. Poor girl just wants her own baby 😢

@AllOfMyLOVE2U

4 жыл бұрын

Fully agree

@shivashampoo8435

8 ай бұрын

good point

@Aethuviel

8 ай бұрын

Or maybe she would attack and kill her own calf, because she has no idea how to be an elephant, and would have no idea what that creature is.

Amazing.

This is so cool.

Fascinating

I hope the old man will have long life and a healthy life. It's sad if he would pass before Nzo, so who would understand herore than this man 😢

I am in love with the elephants. My dream before I die, is to be able to meet one!

@booper3439

4 жыл бұрын

Me too ♡♡♡♡

@Rasz_Milli

4 жыл бұрын

Lol sounds like you're talking about death by elephant

@siddharthkr4816

Жыл бұрын

Here in india elephants are domesticated each temple in kerela have more than 10 to 100 in their wings

This is an example of true love .

When you watch such You wish you could just watch on and on and on! It's not nice seeing the video end. Nice Video Nice Narration Nice Shots Just brillianto!

That is amazing how animals will except anyone as family. We People of the world could take lessons

I love Nzou

Awesome animal documentary! I was very nervous that the female elephant was going to kill the baby buffaloes again. It was such a huge relief that she did not do so this time.

น่ารักมาก

Beauty of nature

❤❤❤น่ารักมากมิตรภาพต่างสายพันธุ์

This game park is in my back yard I hope more will be done to protect it upstream. I have noted some changes especially on the rural side and more involvement and education with the locals is needed in terms of water and tree planting and retention in order to protect the water sources. Hopefully relations are built that are beneficial to the locals so they see the value of this park. Its a beautiful place I must admit.

it's a very unique and sad social structure for this buffalo-elephant, it would be great if she could be with her normal herd but to separate them now would be even more cruel, I'd imagine she would die from the loneliness. She has her herd and it appears that all have adapted so that the farmer, the elephant, the buffalo and surrounding community benefit from this sad but kind of necessary situation.

Give her mirror so she can see herself lol

I'm confused why keep the elephant if it's killing many buffalo?

@phillyflash43

6 жыл бұрын

I think the narrator said something about how it's their leader and protector and it's too late to separate them. But it's nagging me that this herd doesn't need protection in this protected ranch, and if they got rid of the elephant an older female buffalo or the bulls being penned up now could join them and lead the herd around just as well. I would hope it's still possible to have the elephant adopted by it's own kind and have a better life. This arrangement doesn't seem to add up as being the only way to go forward...

@BreakerInc

6 жыл бұрын

Because she plays a vital role in protecting the man responsible for tending to the buffalo, they said as much.

@HelixMaster12

6 жыл бұрын

1.) She protects the man in charge of the buffalo from the buffalo themselves, very dangerous animals. He needs to be there as well because poachers have snuck onto ranches like these before. 2.) Nzou has no social skills, most of the behaviors elephants express are learned behaviors, especially when it comes to socializing. She also would probably not be able to communicate, as elephants have their own language which is used very similarly to ours. 3.) They're doing fine as is.

@InYeshuasHolyName

4 жыл бұрын

The killer / bodyguard elephant for the herd then dew to it being a desease free herd - they're a prized herd....and being that the killer bodyguard elephant will only calm down by the command's of the brother-man , because killer bodyguard go way back ....and yah know elephants have a heck of a memory ~ loyalty .....but it all comes down to (Buffalo'$) with this video . Made to sound like a documentary 👌😂😂🤐😎.

@xxx_a_shxxx

4 жыл бұрын

Would you rather have the elephant dead!!!!😲😮😧😦😯😱😱😱😱😱😱😱

This elephant is seriously confused and not happy. Just sayin

@user-pi1xd9ob4x

5 жыл бұрын

In her place you would be, too.

@mienamie4448

4 жыл бұрын

Agree!!🙁😔

@lindataghon5712

4 жыл бұрын

IF?! she was unhappy, she would leave, nothing would stop her!

@lindaphillips2140

4 жыл бұрын

@@lindataghon5712 She doesn't know there is another choice.

@tidimalomoeketsi507

4 жыл бұрын

linda phillips you really not making sense wow

Beautiful animal

My uneducated opinion as to why the elephant sometimes kills calves is that she knows she herself is the leader and yet she has no progeny, and I think there is something in her that senses in a very vague way that it's wrong for the others of the herd to be able to calf before/and more often than herself, and I believe that how she interprets the "wrongness" of that is the catalyst for her instinct to destroy them on occasion. I think if she were allowed to have a baby it would stop. I think she is just trying to interpret and correct what she cannot help but feel is disorder.

nice love ❤elephant and buffalo

Elephant: I'm their undisputed leader. See how they follow me? Buffalo: Shade!

WOW...AWESOME STORY...7NZOU WE LOVE U,,,THANKS TO UR BFF AND CARETAKER N EVERYONE WHO KEEPS U ALL SAFE N HEALTHY,,GOD BLESS❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏☝

Nice Video... Love From Assam (Pathsala)🤗🤗🤗

Wonderful

Maravilha qlindo muito legal

Remarkable!

this is very sadfor the ellle

Love elephants

There is absolutely no reason that Nzou must stay with the buffalo, it's cruel.

@Cazameilia

Жыл бұрын

there are other elephants in the park now, they have tried to approach her too, but Nzou won't have anything to do with them. After several failed attempts over the years to encourage her to become part of an elephant herd, conservancy managers decided to let her stay with the buffalo. Its her choice, they can't force her to be social with other elephants or make her join a herd, and there are other elephant herds around she is free to join anytime if she wanted to, she has made it clear in previous attempts she doesn't, whether its ideal or not -she sees the buffalo as her herd and family now, and that's it.

@phuongvo3051

Жыл бұрын

She is happy where she was , if she was not feel right , she would walk out long time ago , as long as she feel happy and comfortable ❤

@SameerPrehistorica

Жыл бұрын

@@Cazameilia Thanks for the info.

@mammmaroach8971

Жыл бұрын

@@Cazameilia why isn't this shown? Sorry, but it's still a bit suspicious

@Rizal12061986

8 ай бұрын

@@Cazameilia she can't have her own cub, so sometime she kill the buffalo cub. she can't get any male (elephant) so she kill the male bull. in a nutshell, she have become a sad, lonely, and jealous feminist boss babe

amazing behavior

@jadezee6316

4 жыл бұрын

but,,sadly after watching this..i have concluded that the elephant has lost its right to survive due to its killing of so many baby calf's....if this stupid guy who is the cause of all this can not find a place for the elephant then he must kill it.....as this tragedy must end

Great film.

Nzou is also a Kamba name for elephant. Kamba is a tribe in the eastern part of Kenya.

Nice 🎉🎉

Una realidad fascinante...

Poor Girl she really needs to learn more about her biological species 😥😥😥

@kherona

4 жыл бұрын

I always say that when I see transgender humans.

@SnaykEyes77

4 жыл бұрын

@@kherona - Hahaha.....good one.

Solong they Happy is OK is a wonderful friendship is love they show together!if is better for her bring to Elefant Family!