Does photo show jumping baby elephant? Fact Check

A photo purports to show a gleeful looking baby elephant jumping from the ground.

FALSE

An example of the photo on social media is below.

The image is fake, and was an entry into a Photoshop competition on the website Design Crowd. The full sized version of the entry on the aforementioned link clearly reveals the artwork is in fact not real. The photo included the following caption from the illustrator Polynic –

The ears were pretty hard…but I had lots of fun doing a little magic 🙂

The source image of the two adult elephants can be seen below.

As such we rank the claim that the photo shows a jumping baby elephant as false.