另類友誼 非洲象和汪星人是好朋友
It's no surprise that a dog loves playing catch — but an elephant?
狗狗喜歡玩接球遊戲不奇怪，但爲什麼大象也愛？Our charming pictures show Bubbles, a rescued orphan elephant, picking up a ball with her trunk to tease Bella the labrador, who can just about reach her pal’s knee.
在這組非常讚的圖片中，被營救的孤兒大象Bubbles 和拉布拉多犬Bella 在玩接球遊戲，Bubbles用象鼻撿起球逗Bella，Bella只能夠到自己小夥伴的膝蓋。She dives into a pool of water, but that doesn’t deter the pooch, who tries to get her paws on the ball by climbing onto Bubbles’ back.
Bubbles 跳進游泳池裏，但這無法阻止Bella對球的爭取慾望，她跳到Bella 的背上努力夠着球。
‘They just love to romp around together,’ says Bhagavan Antle, director of the wildlife park in California where the two friends live.
這兩隻小夥伴生活在加利福利亞的野生動物公園，負責人Bhagavan Antle 表示：“他們倆就是喜歡一起嬉戲玩耍。”Bubbles and her other animal friends are part of a wild life conservation effort called The Rare Species Fund in Southern California.
Bubbles 和她的其他動物同伴，都得益於“南加利福利亞稀有物種基金” 的動物保護工作。The trainer describes her as 'small and helpless for an elephant' on the animal's Facebook page, after her parents were killed for their tusks during a 20 year slaughter which ended with the ban on ivory import in 1989.
培訓師在Bubbles的臉書頁面描述說她是“一隻看起來又小又無助的大象”，Bubbles 的父母死於象牙交易的大屠殺中，這場持續了20年的大屠殺在1989年因爲象牙進口禁令才終結。
