The feels

A baby elephant is in the womb for 22 months, a human baby is in the womb for 9 months. When a baby is born (human or animal) they are utterly dependent on their mothers because they can do nothing to support themselves. A baby is a part of their mother and babies need the comfort of their mothers to be able to thrive in the world. That mother has brought this baby into the world and gave them their lives, the poor baby elephant want to give his mother back her love she gave to him when she had him! Everyone needs to feel loved and if a baby doesn't feel loved they will cry about it! Babies are the ones who need our love most, so when the elephant did not accept her baby boy, he felt rejected and unloved and needed loving to make him happy again. Yes animals do have many of he same instincts that we have! So yes when a baby (human or elephant) is feeling unloved, they do cry.

Even humans feel nothing at that stage. It's just instinct. Perhaps, the beginnings of emotion but not the thing itself.