Rare elephant twins born in dramatic birth in Thailand

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An elephant in Thailand has delivered a rare set of twins in a dramatic birth that left a carer injured as he protected one of the newborns from her mother's attack.
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00:00Of course, the mother attacked that baby because she'd never had twins before, because it's
00:26very rare, and that had caused her some pain, so she was attacking it.
00:32So the mahouts, who are the carers of the elephants, jumped in there trying to get the
00:37baby away so she didn't kill it, and one of the mahouts actually got a broken ankle in
00:44the process.
01:09If that situation had happened in the wild, mum would have been attacking it, so its chances
01:16of survival in the wild, the little girl, very slight.

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