A Baby Elephant's First Steps (PHOTOS)

A Baby Elephant's First Steps (PHOTOS)
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Baby elephant Rani plays with her mother Tura outdoors for the first time in an enclosure at the Hagenbeck zoo in Hamburg. Rani was born on July 3, 2009 and is now the youngest member of a family of 12 elephants that live in the zoo.

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