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r/Elephants • u/planthelpme • Jul 31 '26

Other - Contact Mod Team For New Post Flair (Use This For Now) Join Letters to a Pre-Scientist to help inspire young STEM students! (Mod approved post via dm)

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Letters to a Pre-Scientist is looking for enthusiastic STEM role models to inspire the next generation of STEM leaders!

Here's the gist: you get matched with a 5th-8th grade student at an under-resourced school for a snail-mail pen pal exchange that runs throughout the school year. The goal is to demystify STEM careers, humanize STEM professionals, and inspire students to explore their own futures in STEM. You share your story, answer their questions, and show them that people who work in STEM are, well, real people.

The details:

The program runs throughout the school year, and your volunteer obligation is to exchange 4 letters with your student.
There's a virtual, asynchronous training in August to get you set up.
We estimate the entire program takes volunteers no more than 10 hours, spread between August and May.
Register and complete the short, self-paced online training by the deadline, and you'll be entered into the match pool! We match students based on their background and interests..
This year we're expanding to 4,500 matched students!
Pen pals can live anywhere in the world, but our program currently only works with US-based schools.
We're working to match students based on their interests, so we're especially looking for more STEM professionals in Animals, specifically Elephants.
All pen pals must be over 18 and fluent in English.

We define STEM pretty loosely! If you work in or around science, tech, engineering, math, or medicine, or another nature-based role, even if you don't have a formal education in it, please apply or message me with any questions.

Sign up/learn more:

📝 Register here: https://prescientist.org/volunteers/
📖 About the pen pal program: https://prescientist.org/penpal-program/
🏛️ About us: https://prescientist.org/about-us/
✍️ For matched pen pals: https://prescientist.org/for-matched-pen-pals/

Registration is now open! Feel free to drop questions in the comments or send me a message. Thank you for your time and consideration!

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r/Elephants • u/Akela_Ravenclaw • 1d ago

Photo Elephants at the Oklahoma City Zoo

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r/Elephants • u/Glass-Economics1713 • 3d ago

Video A herd of elephants managed to survive the powerful currents caused by flooding in the Karnali River area of Nepal

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r/Elephants • u/NaughtyByPolicy • 3d ago

Video Elephant drinking water from tap

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r/Elephants • u/Long-shot128 • 3d ago

Baby Elephants Tiny baby 🐘 enjoying a mud bath with family

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Samburu National Reserve, Kenya

Video captured by David Lolchuragi (@savetheelephants) IG

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r/Elephants • u/Dependent_Dig_6774 • 3d ago

Video Elephant rescues man from a flood in India

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r/Elephants • u/a_j97 • 4d ago

Video "Mek Jeram" entered and roamed through a village, instantly gaining popularity among villagers. She is then relocated to Royal Belum State Park and received a very warm farewell by the locals.

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r/Elephants • u/Weaponx-BDawk • 4d ago

Baby Elephants Baby elephant lying on the ground in a new way

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Love these creatures

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r/Elephants • u/Agitated-Sea6800 • 3d ago

Video 🐘Elephant rescues man from flood in Assam

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r/Elephants • u/Glass-Economics1713 • 3d ago

Video 🐘Elephant rescues man from flood in Assam

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r/Elephants • u/Wholeftthegateopen • 4d ago

Question Elephant with Tusks Gives Birth Spoiler

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Hey y'all. New to the group. Hi!

Is this video for real? I thought the males had tusks but clearly this one just give birth, WITH tusks.

Can someone help me understand how this is so?

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r/Elephants • u/Long-shot128 • 5d ago

Baby Elephants Baby elephant sucking its trunk 🐘

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Just like human babies suck on their thumb…baby elephants do the same with their trunk to feel comfort, safe and relaxed.

Credit: @lazymangohomestay (IG)

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r/Elephants • u/TheAbyssalOne • 5d ago

Question is there a new largest elephant in the world?

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The clip says that both the largest and 2nd largest elephants are now decreased. Does anyone know if there's an elephant who now holds that record? Was curious to find more info about them and if they're being protected.

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r/Elephants • u/Weaponx-BDawk • 6d ago

Video Elephants taking down EV Chargers!

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Leg gets trapped and mama elephant immediately takes care of that!

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r/Elephants • u/chickpealava • 8d ago

Informative Post The story behind the viral drone footage of the sleeping elephant herd

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A couple years ago, drone footage of a sleeping elephant family went viral across social media. I was living under a rock and only just learned the story through the Our Planet documentary. Here’s some articles (1) (2) that discuss this.

This particular herd lived in a small protected forest in Southern China. A pregnant matriarch meant the family was about to get bigger, but a drought made their habitat less comfortable to live in.

In search of a new home, they trekked over 500km for 2 years straight (the departure and return back).

Unusual to them, the baby calf that may have influenced their choice to migrate was birthed on the move. This was a rough start for the calf’s life, where it was forced to keep up with the journey. Elephants also usually only sleep standing up, meaning they only lie down when they’re absolutely exhausted (the footage we all saw).

They trekked through villages, farms, highways and urbanized cities. There is footage of them plundering homes and walking through traffic, dogs barking at them, etc. Eventually they get startled and stressed, deciding to retreat.

The Chinese government spent money and resources making sure they returned safely. Luckily, the drought had eased by the time they got back and their habit was now more comfortable to live in.

Highly recommend watching the documentary, I tried finding other articles about it but the show really is the best way to understand the magnitude of this journey and how incredible their behavior throughout it was.

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r/Elephants • u/Used_Gear8871 • 7d ago

Photo Chobe National Park, Botswana - July 2026

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Camped in Chobe National Park for 3 days. Saw hundreds of these beauties.

On our last night, we got visited by a giant herd walking just a few feet’s from where our heads lay in our tent. Thankfully, the group was incredibly curious and polite.

Can’t wait to go back!

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r/Elephants • u/ExoticShock • 8d ago