An elephant injured by a poacher’s snare recovers after self treatment | Braconnage

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A poacher’s wire snare cut the skin of this mother elephant’s front left leg. Given the depth of the wound made by this cable she must have struggled with considerable force before managing to break free. At the beginning of the video we see a large circular groove on the carpus (the wrist in humans) due to the repeated strangulation by the cable. This groove has been partially filled by soft tissue which have been dried by air the elephant blew threw her trunk and by plasters made with sandy earth.
Five weeks later this female elephant walks without a limp but with is still unable to put all her weight on the injured leg. A layer of skin has begun to cover the soft tissue which filled the groove. In a mud bath this mother elephant self treats her wound by applying a plaster of clayey mud which she spreads carefully over the regenerating skin with her trunk. This treatment creates a better asepsis and a protection for the wound which without a bandage could become overrun by files and all sorts of parasites. Unlike canines and feline whose repeated licking of a wound promotes healing, elephants are unable to lick themselves. The self treatment performed by this elephant works to replace the healing properties of self licking.
Has this elephant tapped into her “elephant memory” to remember how her mother or other congeners healed themselves in similar cases? Or rather is this high pressure cleansing and dressing of the wound with sandy earth or mud a method of self treatment that is innate in elephants?
The President of Gabon, Mr. Ali Bongo Ondimba says that “the elephants of Gabon are under siege because international trafficking had lead to a sharp increase in the price of ivory in the region. I call on the international community to join us in this fight. If we do not reverse this trend quickly, the African elephant will be exterminated.” Mr. Ali Bongo Ondimba has pledged to toughen the penalties for anyone caught red handed in the trafficking of ivory
It’s an enormous job to monitor a country half the size of France and largely covered by forest. Despite numerous arrests and the subsequent destruction of the poachers weapons, unfortunately their wire snares scattered in the vastness of the forest, remain active.
The Gabonese authorities are truly determined to put an end to this “elephanticide”. (Robin Alcorn translation)
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FRENCH :
Un piège à collet en câble d’acier a découpé la peau de la jambe avant gauche de cette mère éléphant. A la vue de la profondeur de l’entaille faite par ce câble, elle a du se débattre avec force avant de réussir à se libérer.
Au début de la vidéo on constate sur le carpe (poignet chez l’homme) la présence d’un large sillon circulaire provoqué par les étranglements répétés du câble. Celui-ci est partiellement comblé par des tissus mous, asséchés par des pulvérisations et emplâtres à base de terres sablonneuses. Cinq semaines plus tard, sa marche est sans boiterie mais avec un appui sensible. Une couverture cutanée a commencé à recouvrir les tissus mous ayant comblé le sillon. Au cours d’un bain de boue, cette mère éléphant complète son auto-traitement par la pose d’un emplâtre de boue argileuse soigneusement étalé, sur la partie en cours de régénération de son derme. Cela va permettre une meilleure asepsie et une protection de la plaie qui, sans ce pansement pourrait être envahie de mouches et de toutes sortes de parasites. Cette thérapie palie à l’absence de possibilité de se lécher chez l’éléphant, alors que par exemple un léchage de plaie répété chez les canidés ou les félins permet une bonne cicatrisation.
Cette éléphante a-t-elle fait appel à sa « mémoire d’éléphant » pour se souvenir comment sa mère ou d’autres congénères s’étaient soignés en pareil cas ? Ou bien ce nettoyage à haute pression et ces poses d’emplâtre à base de terre sablonneuse ou de boue argileuse sont-ils innés chez les éléphants ?
Le Président du Gabon, M. Ali Bongo Ondimba, dit que « Les éléphants du Gabon sont assiégés parce que le trafic international a entrainé une forte augmentation des prix de l’ivoire dans la région. J’appelle la Communauté Internationale à nous rejoindre dans cette lutte. Si nous n’inversons pas la tendance rapidement, l’éléphant d’Afrique sera exterminé. »
La tâche est énorme pour surveiller ce pays étendu comme la moitié de la France et couvert en grande partie par la forêt.
Si après les nombreuses arrestations des braconniers leurs armes sont détruites, malheureusement leurs pièges en câble d’acier, disséminés dans l’immensité de la forêt, restent actifs.
Les autorités gabonaises sont vraiment décidées à mettre fin à cet "éléphanticide"

[@SrgtBarney]

thats really cool that it knows how to self treat itself like that. hope she's doing well

[@fuckyouyoutube7921]

This is really interesting. They learn from their family but at one time one elephant must've figured out that applying clay as a protection for wounds and passed it down.

[@atoxor2979]

Cette espèce va bientôt disparaître si ça continu comme ça continuer c est génial ce que vous faites!!!

[@MissLibertarian]

I've seen the same process used by vets. I have a vivid memory of the time my Dad (I was 4) put mud on my bee sting, too. Mud for cooling and to relieve itching (and to draw out poison). I'm sure I remember the latter because it violated all the rules I knew about owies and how to treat them.

[@XHB06400CANNES]

*Argargillaceous mud has several virtues: it allows elephants to:* - to improve their protection against insects because when the mud dries, it creates a shell that crushes the parasites that live on their skin. - to protect themselves from the sun. - to cool them when the water in the mud evaporates. - to heal oneself after a deep wounds May I invite you to watch more of my videos showing elephants using the virtues of this mud: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a4qnZXiPqaZ1faM Mom elephant and her baby wallowing in the sun-dried mud. Moments of pure bliss! (Gabon) kzbin.info/www/bejne/hZW1fWicba2ibbs Wild elephant moms and their tiny babies relax, spray, wallow and play in mud. Natures' pure bliss kzbin.info/www/bejne/aKHNYomcoLN9iZY first mud bath of a cute new born elephant with her mom and aunts in Nyonié (Gabon) kzbin.info/www/bejne/j2LOYal9iMxphKM Elephants enjoying a healthy mud bath (short version) / Gabon : Bains de boue chez les éléphants kzbin.info/www/bejne/bHqTYWyOga-lasU Elephants enthusiastically enjoying a healthy mud bath in order to dislodge skin parasites. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mnfcga1rp9eme8U Blood-sucking Ticks often infest Elephant skin causing intense itching. How do they get rid of them? kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJi7f4xorKyEZ7M An elephant trapped in a poacher's snare kzbin.info/www/bejne/foHOZqmNpLOHebM An elephant injured by a poacher’s snare recovers after self treatment Check out more of my 180 homemade videos from my channel and don't forget to read the description attached to each of them, you will find very interesting information. kzbin.infovideos Good vision!

[@christianvigna]

Long life with the elephants of Gabon, 6 months of prison for a poacher, it is really little like punishment…. Don VIGNA

[@jayrad8321]

what sweethearts!

[@dariakhaltourina495]

Did she use the mirror to see how the wound is and to treat it with precision? Or was this just a random site for her to do this?

[@XHB06400CANNES]

To be able to use a mirror to look at a part of your body that you cannot see directly, you have to be self-aware. However, if African elephants are intelligent, they do not have the cognitive capacity to recognize themselves in a mirror, whereas a few rare Asian elephants have succeeded (brand test). The tip of their trunk is very sensitive and acts as a third eye. This allows them to precisely direct their water jets in order to regularly clean their wounds by getting rid of infected parts and thus obtain a good cicatrization. May I invite you to watch some of my other cute videos of elephant cubs? kzbin.info/www/bejne/hZW1fWicba2ibbs Wild elephant moms and their tiny babies relax, spray, wallow and play in mud. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oIiuZ6SBqMt_rNk Elephants calves playing in heavy rain in the Gabon jungle kzbin.info/www/bejne/aKHNYomcoLN9iZY first mud bath of a cute new born elephant with her mom and aunts in Nyonié (Gabon) kzbin.info/www/bejne/pIquoY2kiMaYd9U baby elephant sleeps standing up glued to mom so as not to be left out when the night walk restarts? kzbin.info/www/bejne/kHmXgWCgdshpeLM For a baby elephant it is not easy to move through the jungle (Gabon) kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpSzmYd7g9Z3nq8 an elephant calf learns mirror and how to use its trunk to eat bindweed (grab / skake the sand off) kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZ25h5uejrunibc A calf elephant thinks its reflection in the mirror would be a young cow or a young calf: cute react Check out more of my 160 homemade videos from my channel and don't forget to read the description attached to each of them, you will find very interesting information. kzbin.infovideos Good vision!

[@dariakhaltourina495]

@@XHB06400CANNES wow, thank you I'm gonna have great time

[@XHB06400CANNES]

@@dariakhaltourina495 🙏🙏🙏 I really appreciate it when a viewer thanks me for my reply to her comment. Merci beaucoup !

[@matsleysystems6768]

c'est vraiment bien la boue en fait!!! :)

[@vyshakgowda6034]

Instead of putting in you tube,u should inform Forrest department to treat

[@XHB06400CANNES]

The purpose of my video is only to show the ability of elephants to heal themselves after they escape a snare. Local authorities are constantly fighting poaching. Thank you for your useless advice.

[@maureenbisieri6776]

@@XHB06400CANNES hey vyshak ws only making a comment in gd taste tht wasnt a useless comment Xavier so dn get angry

[@jasonvoorhees5180]

Geee it’s almost like you can do both things 😱 imagine that...

[@silviamartinez4226]

How do you know was self treatment and got better. He needs aveterinary don’t sell your videos if you are mot going to help him

[@DeliciousDeBlair]

Has anybody continued to follow the elephant to keep track of her progress?

[@goli1000]

Are there too many snares around the territory the mirrors are standing?

[@moniquesantos4745]

😢

[@patriciagonzalez8417]

Poachers should stop hurting animals tiger and many more

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Gabon Review May 28, 2019: According to NGO Conservation Justice , the heaviest sanctions come from the court in Franceville in Haut-Ogooué where Djamal Hamadou was sentenced to one year in prison for repeated offences due to the detention and sale of ivory. Three hunters, Hervé Yembengoy, Patrick Mpirero and Egide Lekoune, were sentenced to one year in prison for hunting a fully protected species (Elephant) and illegal possession of weapons. As for Camille Bala and Parfait Nzote, they in turn were sentenced to 1 year in prison, including 4 months suspended for complicity. "These strong decisions should deter wildlife traffickers," the NGO hopes. "Pending the new Forest Code, Gabon's legislation remains weak as a deterrent to wildlife traffickers. While the maximum prison sentence is only six months, it is 3 years in Cameroon, 5 years in Congo, 10 years in Benin and Burkina Faso," notes Conservation Justice, which hopes that the Government will find a solution as soon as possible to remedy this situation.

[@mathildamn9651]

Quel processus de cicatrisation... nous avons tant à apprendre des animaux. Pour ma part je ne pense pas que ce comportement soit inné. Renseignez vous sur l'histoire de la petite fille américaine maltraitée et enfermée dans une chambre seule toute son enfance. Apres sa découverte, il était impossible de la sociabiliser, ou de lui apprendre quelque chose, son Q.I était très bas dans la moyenne. Conclusion? Sans apprentissage, il est très difficile d'avancer

[@manish3889]

Why does this elephant is throwing sand on herself?

[@XHB06400CANNES]

descriptions in English and in French a jointed to all my videos. So to learn more, read the description of this video . The answer of your question is wrote in it.

[@diego5125]

Can't wait for the day all evil man who do this to animals just go away.

[@rahmat8543]

😢