Animals | January 20, 2022 12:06 AM | Hang Bona

Cute baby elephant loves his nap time so much that his keepers can’t wake him up.

The defiant little critter was seen napping happily on his side in the center of Prague Zoo in a beautiful video.

When the caretakers gave him a gentle nudge, the youngster chased after her mother, ignoring her irate mother, who trampled him with her trunk.

The zoo workers gave him a little push when he finally got up and chased after her.

The young elephant male is napping in the grass, in the shade of his dust-kicking mother. His front legs twitch, and he falls asleep in the image of peace, his mouth half-open.

Weary of the long nap, his mother approaches him and touches his drowsy body with an inquiring trunk. She quits up and leaves when she receives no response from the sluggish adolescent.

Thankfully, there are keepers on standby to help, and one of them gently presses the animal’s behind numerous times.

Finally, the newborn elephant, who has not yet been named, extends his front legs and jerks himself awake.

He regains his vitality and runs away with the keeper towards his mother in a matter of seconds. At the end of the video, the happy couple walks away.

At birth, an adult elephant weighs about 250 pounds and stands about three feet tall. In the first several weeks, they can’t see well, but they can know their mothers by touch, scent, and sound.

For the first several months, infants are extremely attached to their mothers, and they can drink up to two years of their mothers’ milk – about three gallons per day.