How the #elephant Got His Trunk - African Children’s Story 🐘🐊🇿🇦

📚🐘📖 Happy Story Time Tuesday, GG Family!! 🎥🐘 Meet our gorgeous "actors": For the last 3 years, all 3 of these amazing gentle giants have been with GG; allowing them to simply be the elephants they meant to be. Their owners have since signed an additional 3 year contract with GGSHP. 💜🐘 Our beautiful, gentle Pookie is showing us her gorgeous long snout. Pookie is a handicapped elephant. Not from a crocodile in the wild. But, sadly, from chains in captivity. For the last 3 years, Pookie has been with GG; allowing her to simply be the elephant she was meant to be. You can read Pookie's true story here👇 https://gentlegiantselephants.org/ele... 💜🐘 Happy Ghon Thong, 13 yo. From a very young age, Ghon Thong was taken to the side streets in the city to sell vegetables and beg. They would spend day and night in the city, walking on hot concrete, selling sugar cane to the tourists at night. Her true story here 👇 https://gentlegiantselephants.org/ele... 💜🐘 Our gorgeous, adventurous Khamkoon was also an x-street begging elephant. But before that, from the age of 5, Kham Koon worked in the tourism industry at the Golden Triangle, entertainingtourists. Her story here 👇 https://gentlegiantselephants.org/ele... How The Elephant Got It's Trunk is a favorite South African children’s bed-time story. Legend has it that the elephant never used to have a trunk. Instead, he had a blackish, bulgy nose, as big as a boot, that he could wriggle about from side to side. This didn’t bother him much. In fact, he was rather proud of his small nose because it never got in the way of feeding and drinking. But, as the elephant grew and grew to his great size, mealtimes became very important to Elephant. He had to eat and drink a great deal in order to keep his great strength up. He began to find it uncomfortable because he had to go down on bended knees to reach anything. Then, one day, Elephant was at the river and was kneeling down drinking from the fresh water. Crocodile swam past and saw Elephant at the water’s edge. Crocodile was very hungry and saw an opportunity for a nice big meal. Crocodile swam stealthily up to where Elephant was, and suddenly lunged out of the water and grabbed Elephant by the nose. Elephant was surprised and tried to pull away, but Crocodile had a firm grip on his nose. Crocodile used all his weight and strength to try to pull Elephant into the water. However, Elephant was also very strong, and he dug his feet into the bank and fought back. They battled for hours, and with every pull and tug, Elephant’s nose stretched a little more. Eventually, Crocodile became too tired to pull any more and let go of Elephant. Elephant ran off, with his now very long nose hanging down in front of his feet. He was distraught and hid in the bush as he was too embarrassed to face the other animals. Soon, Elephant realised that his new stretched nose was more useful than his previously small snout. He was able to reach food and drink without kneeling any more, and could even reach high branches and pull them down to eat the fruit and leaves. All the other Elephants soon realised the benefits of having a long trunk, and one by one, they too visited the river and taunted the Crocodile to try and pull them into the water. The Elephants always won the tug-of-wars, and all ended up with lovely stretched snouts, but Crocodile remained hungry. To this day, Elephants have their long trunks rather than a small snout, and Crocodiles have learned that it is a waste of time and energy attacking Elephants when drinking at the water’s edge. ~ The end 🐘🐊 #tuesday #storytelling #africa #elephant #legend #folklore #children #story #HelpAwakenSleepingHearts #SayNoToElephantSlavery #gentlegiants #BeKindToElephants #newlife #support #charity #nonprofit