--- title: Baby Elephant Plays With Birds in Kruger National Park in South Africa description: Watch a sprightly calf meet a flock of swallows canonical: https://time.com/3977047/baby-elephant-plays-with-birds/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-29T17:58:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:43:44.568Z og:title: Watch This Tiny Baby Elephant Play With a Flock of Birds og:description: A reminder that not everything is awful og:url: https://time.com/3977047/baby-elephant-plays-with-birds/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch This Tiny Baby Elephant Play With a Flock of Birds twitter:description: A reminder that not everything is awful twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Baby Elephant Playing With Birds Will Remind You That Not Everything Is Awful > Sponsored content. 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Boo, a five-year-old Pomeranian with over 1.6 million followers on Facebook, has just released his first book_ by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jul 29, 2015 5:58 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jul 29, 2015 5:58 PM UTC There is a whole lot of ugliness and despair in this world, but occasionally, something will happen to remind us that not _everything_ is terrible. Some things are actually _wonderful_. Like this baby elephant in South Africa who was spotted playing with birds. You’ll see the sprightly, good-natured elephant calf [chasing a flock of swallows](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIy5aiRdtrc) in Kruger National Park. We can only imagine that shortly after this video was recorded, the elephant struck up a friendship with a few of the birds and now they’re all off somewhere creating a special language. Because miracles can and do happen. ### Mini Horses and Toddler Friends May Be the Cutest Thing Ever Published in LIFE  3-year-old cover girl Cynthia West with Chauncey. Ed Clark—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Ronnie getting sized up. Ed Clark—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Caption from LIFE. Ronnie stands uncomfortably with normal horse collar. He eats only four pounds of hay a day compared to 40 pounds for draft horse. Ed Clark—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  A young girl with Chauncey the miniature horse. Ed Clark—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Chauncey and 2 larger horses. Ed Clark—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Cedric being held by a trainer. Ed Clark—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Cynthia riding Cedric. Ed Clark—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Cynthia with two miniature horses at the Lilliput Ranch in California. Ed Clark—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Cynthia showing some love for Cedric. Ed Clark—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Ronnie and the Great Pyrenees are taken for a walk. Ed Clark—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images _Read next:_ [_This Adorable Teddy Bear Dog Is About to Take Over the Internet_](http://time.com/3978280/tonkey-teddy-bear-dog-internet/?iid=time%5Freadnext) [_Download TIME’s mobile app for iOS to have your world explained wherever you go_](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/time-mobile/id328218429) ## Transcript [ CROSSTALK ] Boo is a 5 year old Pomeranian who became famous by having a Facebook page with photos of him. And is just become popular all over the world, with 1. 6 million. He's so cute. If you look at Boo's Facebook page. Because people, like, within an hour, of a picture being put up with very simple caption, people go crazy. They'll be like 10, 000 likes. Hundreds of comments within an hour. So we thought, that's what, people want. Just cute photos of Boo, and we decided to do a, a book and pitch it to his owner. And she liked it, they worked on the book together and it came together really quickly. We just have people from all over the world that always say he's the cutest dog they've ever seen, and where can they get a dog like him, what kind of dog is he? So we've deemed him the cutest dog in the world, and no one has come forward to deny it. This is the cutest dog I think I've ever seen. You are cute in an ugly way, or ugly in a cute way. He's very, very mellow. Super loving. Like he just wants to be with people, and be petted, and just be happy. Would you like a Boo button? Oh, I would like one. I get emails from people all the time that say like, they look at his page if they've had a bad day, or if they're feeling down and it cheers them up. And he is perfect for that. I'm gonna get all the ladies in this bar right here. The Boo barrel. I got the Boo bunny. 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