Teacher caught elephant mother ‘schooling’ her calf on camera

A screenshot from a video posted by @DR_Min on his TikTok showing a mother elephant pushing her calf back to the forest in Tawau.

KOTA KINABALU: A mother elephant’s gesture of using her trunk and body to gently steer her calf in the right direction caught Darmin Ladiro’s eyes recently.

Not wanting to tell the story without proof, he quickly took his camera out and recorded the moment.