Cute orphaned baby elephants 🐘🐘 Khanyisa and Fenya's sweet moments getting to know one another💚

It is heartwarming to see how Khanyisa heads out to greet Fenya in the mornings. She is so gentle in her approach, and very calm.

Fenya is taking her time, some days more interactive than others. You will see in this video one day compared to the next day.

See Fenya place her trunk into Khanyisa's mouth which was amazing to see. This is another way of communicating that elephants and other animals have that includes using the "Jacobson organ” otherwise known as the vomeronasal organ which is an olfactory organ (assisting in smell). They can pick up on each other's pheromones with this organ and collect information. This is a very important part of an elephant communication.

The duct that transmits the information is found on the upper part of the mouth. This duct, known as the vomeronasal duct is a mucus-filled opening that then leads the "information" to the vomeronasal organ (Jacobson's organ) where the nerve endings are located, allowing the sensing of the chemicals (pheromones) contained in the bodily fluid.

The pheromones are chemicals that provide information and deliver several messages from bodily fluids, such as saliva, sweat, urine, secretions from the elephant’s temporal glands and dung. The Jacobsen organ helps "decipher" these messages.

Oh, how we wish we knew what these two brave survivors say to one another!

Видео Cute orphaned baby elephants 🐘🐘 Khanyisa and Fenya's sweet moments getting to know one another💚 канала HERD Elephant Orphanage South Africa