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A muddy baby elephant goes to sleep under a tall Cottonseed tree, where the leopard's child has been bouncing all night. It wakes up as a giant white fluffy ball and doesn't recognise itself. The animals come one by one and pull and lick and tug, trying to figure out what it is.

A muddy baby elephant goes to sleep under a tall Cottonseed tree, where the leopard's child has been bouncing all night. It wakes up as a giant white fluffy ball and doesn't recognise itself. The animals come one by one and pull and lick and tug, trying to figure out what it is. The battle being fought by admirable souls to keep elephants from extinction is steady but slow.

A change in mind set is perhaps needed in the formative years, when cuddly bears and koalas and penguins and seal-pups rate high on the Hug-o-meter. Now what if children from Africa to China could learn to see rhinos and elephants as wonderful animals to cuddle and to feel protective towards for a lifetime