Touching ways animals break the language barrier

Two-month-old giraffe Rafiki is pictured meeting her father Miguu for the first time. Zookeepers at Phoenix Zoo in the US state of Arizona captured their touching reunion in September 2018.[File Photo: VCG]

Two elephants got their trunks in a tangle as they had a play fight in a river, in this picture taken in 2010. Photographer Eric Webber sat in a boat just 20 feet away as one swam to the middle of the river using his trunk as a snorkel. [File Photo: VCG]

Romance blooms between two white whales at an ocean park in Qingdao, east China’s Shandong Province, on Valentine’s Day in 2011.[File Photo: VCG]