Baby elephant rescued from well
A video has gone viral of an eight-month-old elephant being rescued from a shallow well in Kenya.
The calf had fallen into a five foot deep hole in the dry grounds of a national park in Rift Valley Province, and was unable to climb out on its own. When conservationists at Amboseli Trust for Elephants heard of the incident, they sent two jeeps to assist.
The calf's anxious mother, Zombe, was kept away from the scene while the team worked to pull her baby out of the well. Herders were expected to arrive any minute to water their cattle and they would have forced Zombe to leave the stranded calf.
After a struggle, the team managed to secure a rope around the baby elephant and attached the other end to the jeep, hauling the calf out of the well to safety.
The touching video ends as the freed elephant and its mother run towards each other, and as they reunite, embrace with their trunks.
Click here to watch the video, which has received almost a million views.
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