A video of an elephant giving birth to twins is turning into a web sensation. The viral video shows two calves figuring out how to walk.

The video was tweeted with the caption: “An elephant at Bandipur
National Park, India gave birth to twin calves. An event said to be extremely
rare.”

The female elephant gave birth to the calves at Bandipur
Tiger Reserve in Karnataka earlier this week, according to local forest
department officials.

The officials further said that some tourists came across a
herd of elephants including one pregnant female in labour, struggling to give
birth. The elephant, unable to stand any longer, stepped into a nearby water
body. Soon, the mother elephant was found coming out of the pond with two
calves.

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The moment was captured by tourists and locals on their
mobile phones.

According to the Society for the Protection of Animals
Abroad, elephants have a one-in-a-million chance of bearing twins, with the
majority of twin births happening in wild African elephants. In their lifespan,
they can have four to five offspring. They can be identical, non-identical, of
different genders, or the same gender.

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In September last year, Sri Lanka’s main elephant orphanage
recorded a rare twin birth as a 25-year-old named Surangi delivered healthy
male calves.

They were the first elephant twins born in captivity in Sri
Lanka since 1941, elephant expert Jayantha Jayewardene told news agency AFP.