Wild Animal Babies is finally launching on Sky Nature, and Metro.co.uk has been gifted with the adorable moment a little elephant calf discovers his trunk.
Our hearts are well and truly melted.
The little one is just five months old, and as presenter Patrick Aryee explains in the voice over, he’s still learning all about his basic skills.
After getting a moment to himself, the short clip shows the youngster experimenting with his trunk – afterall, would you know what to do with a nose that big?
Throwing it up in the air, he sure looks as though he’s having a whale of a time – but things become a little more confusing when he returns to the herd.
Walking alongside his mum, it’s almost as though he can barely keep up with her and ends up stumbling over his own feet, falling flat on his face.
‘Simply coordinating their limbs is a challenge,’ the host of the show says with a slight grimace. ‘And walking takes all his concentration.’
Patrick not only looks at baby elephants, but also teaches viewers all about the first few days and months for the likes of kangaroos, puffins and even wildebeest.
In one episode, he gets the chance to visit a kangaroo sanctuary, where he is joined by the owner Chris ‘Brolga’ Barns who looks after 51 kangaroo orphans.
When approaching new mum Indie, the animal lover explains: ‘he beautiful thing with Indie at the moment, is that she has got her first baby.’
And Patrick can’t believe his eyes, as he pouch starts to wiggle.
‘Look at the movement,’ Brolga beams. ‘There’s a joey in there, at the moment he’s not big enough to be sticking his head out of the pocket.
‘The babies are born the size of a jelly bean and they don’t weigh one gram, so the baby looks like a little tadpole when it’s born and then it crawls up into the pouch.’
The biologist adds: ‘From the moment a baby kangaroo crawls into the pouch it latches on. Its mouth fuses with the mother’s teat allowing it to suckle continuously for four months.’
Wild Animal Babies premieres May 31st on Sky Nature.
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