I laughed when I read the title! As shoe-ins for challenges go this one is forgivable. :)
I really like the way the posture of the baby and the mother echo each other! The baby is nicely framed by the area between the adult's trunk and forelegs. It looks like it was taken on an overcast day which helps to keep extreme shadows from interfering with the detail on these dark subjects.
I would like to see the background be a little less intrusive to help isolate the subject from the zoo environment...blurring, for example, could help. But since you opened your lens quite wide you must have been rather close to the subject and not able to limit the DOF as much as you might have liked. Under this editing rule-set you could have blurred in post process.
I also find the post in the background bothersome. Because it's similar in color to the elephants it looks like an extra leg holding up the adult. If I were cropping this image I'd start just to the right of that post...really nothing to its left is necessary for the composition. This crop would change the orientation of the image...but I think it would further isolate the subject and focus attention more strongly on the lines and shapes repeated between adult and infant.
Aw, Horton was cute as a baby! I like the parallels in their trunks. I'd clone out the pole behind them as it's too close in color to the elephants and distracts a bit, and maybe crop even closer on the left and bottom since you don't have all of mom in the shot, anyway, and the baby is meant to be the focus of attention.
On the thirteenth of May, this Seuss shall end,
And Horton's place in the standings will be known, my friend.
The elephants walk, and together stand tall,
Reminding us "a person's a person no matter how small".
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