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Australia’s most miraculous elephant hasshuffled his way to his first birthday despite his difficultjourney into the world.

Mister Shuffles became an national icon when he was born aliveafter experts mistakenly assumed he had died inside his mother’swomb during a farsighted and hard labour that lasted several days.

One class on Mister Shuffles has tweeted about his entrance into theworld.

‘A baby elephant has died at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo during acomplicated birth process.’ Wrong!’ he said on Monday.

‘Sorry if I made you all sad this time last year, I didn’t meanto, i was having 1 last ultra-nap in mum’s tummy,’ he said in hisnext Tweet.

Zoo staff went to make as shortly as the bouncing 116kg baby wasborn, massaging his limbs and tolerate until he was capable to standup.

At first he was nicknamed Mr Shuffles by zoo staff because ofhis comical early walking attempts – like an old man shufflingaround in ill-fitting slippers.

However, Mister Shuffles was natural to a Thai mother and inkeeping with the zoo’s tradition of respecting the Thai culture hewas given a Thai name and called Pathi Harn.

It was one of seven Thai names proposed in a crown in whichalmost 10,000 people voted and Pathi Harn – meaning ‘a miracle’ -emerged as the clear favourite.

The small guy has since taken to Twitter and he’s spreading theword that he made it through his first class at the zoo.

‘Thank you TarongaZoo for looking after me so good in my 1styear! But u want to guide us for long walks or I’ll start escapingagain,’ he said on the social media forum on Wednesday.

Mister Shuffles has also apparently just knowing about hisdifficult journey into the earth and tweeted excitedly about thattoo.

‘Mum says this time last year all humans here were crying bcsthey thoughts I was dead! Mum says she knew I was okaywanted 1more ultranap,’ he tweeted.