My Best Friend Is A 10,000lb Elephant | BEAST BUDDIES

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WHAT if your best friend weighed 10,000lbs and was able to crush a watermelon under her foot? Acrobat and animal handler Lauryn Murray, 33, from Florida, grew up in a circus and spends almost every day caring for Lady Essex, a huge Asian elephant. Lauryn says the two are 'as close as a human and an elephant can be’. Amazingly, Lady Essex plays fetch with Lauryn’s dogs and even likes to play with her three-year-old son, who helps give her a bath.
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Videographer / director: Gerrit Messersmith
Producer: Liam Miller, Ruby Coote
Editor: Ed Rius
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[@144Jericho]

This beautiful elephant gets more love & attention than most humans. Awesome!

[@willjones455]

She deserves it

[@williambranham6249]

I wonder if the elephant would be happier with an elephant friend 🐘

[@lovepeace4635]

Imagine being kidnapped by an alien and keeping you as a pet . We know elephants are very close to their families, but this elephant is been raised like a dog . Very sad

[@raunakrander5887]

Well, family part maybe not. only the females get a family the males are thrown out as soon as they are of age!

[@Junaid_ayaan_official]

The feelings of the animal should be understood and the animal should not be treated as an animal. Animals are also a living being on this world like us. that is very good.

[@DouglasFergen-pq9ru]

Thanks for sharing

[@bigBsMom]

She's BEAUTIFUL!! But is it necessary to use that "pointy wand thing" when "teaching" her?

[@wildae.]

loved it

[@PaulioMaldinio]

Your 2nd Generation, Born into it, that elephant seen you as a baby

[@feedback1814]

Sorry, but that beautiful animal needs the social interactions of a herd. It was a circus animal, so no matter how much you convince yourself, it was there to perform tricks for paying customers, and now it's basically a pet. If you had found a conservation area or a national park with other elephants, then that would have shown concern and love for the animal. I may sound like I feel strongly about these sorts of things, but wild animals should be able to roam about freely as much as they possibly can

[@HumanOptimization]

aren't we all supposed to be wild animals though? we are also domesticated. enjoy it. she's taken great care of. no situation in this world is ideal. we make the best with what we have.

[@makewithmegma]

🔥💕👍

[@arjunmishra3537]

Animals aren't a property you can own, whatever you say.

[@MethaTugan]

You can tho is like owning woman.

[@MikeyP102]

Yeah where were you when a race of people were owed for 400 years!

[@arjunmishra3537]

@@MikeyP102 A) Not born. B) My forefathers were under British rule. So yeah.

[@erical4049]

@@MikeyP102what in the world? 🤦🏽‍♀️ we’re talking about animals, not humans.

[@erical4049]

@@arjunmishra3537that’s true. None of us were alive, regardless of race.

[@littledudefromacrossthestr5755]

Are you guys re-uploading vids?

[@RichardPicture]

Everybody is doing that now. We should call this stuff out more often. It's called laziness. I wish you tube would Crack down on it and tell them " you already uploaded this, try something different" and KZbin should delete it immediately.

[@justanothermortal1373]

Listen, I understand she loves her, but wild animals really deserve to be in the wild. There is a great deal of abuse that has the potential to go unnoticed because of things like these.

[@klific]

Wow nice that you treat your "buddy" like a circus animal . Why can't you just take care of him and leave the stunts out of it. It's not your play toy there to amuse you

[@robertlynn9667]

over population of humans? what pray tell is the right number of people, then?