In honor of the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, I'm going to take a risk and post a link to an elephant giving birth.

If you don't like bloody liquid, this might not be the video for you. That's the risk I take, I guess - of alienating the squeamish.

But if you're looking for a reminder today of how breathtakingly beautiful nature can truly be, well, I don't think it gets any better than this, folks.

Happy Earth Day to everyone who lives on this crazy spinning globe I call home.

-- Sandra M. Klepach, SKlepach@News-herald.com