You’ll Be So Happy When This Baby Elephant Reunites with Her Mother!

[Omaha Steve]

http://blog.therainforestsite.com/babyelephantrescued/

When this eight-month-old elephant calf fell into a well, her mother Zombe was understandably upset!

Thankfully, someone reported the situation to Amboseli Trust for Elephants, whose workers were able to rescue the poor scared calf, and reunite her with her mother.

See the amazing rescue and reunion in the video below!

Published on Oct 12, 2012
We rescued this young eight months old calf early this week. Luckily the report came in early in the morning and we were able to get there quick before the mother was forced to leave by herders arriving to water their cattle. It was a happy ending as we were able to reunite the calf with her mother, Zombe.

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1. Amazing, indeed. Thanks for sharing this.

[Voice for Peace]

2. something about a running baby elephant ..

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3. That always makes me tear up, lol. The music when mom & baby are running towards each

other gets me every time.

Thanks.

[MissDeeds]

7. Me too

Bawling my fool head off.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

4. sweet hefalumps. dont forget to click to help. Greater Good donates.

Here're a couple. Rainforest and Animal Rescue.

http://m.therainforestsite.greatergood.com/clickToGive/trs/home?origin=TRSblog_Footer&_ga=1.188353320.1487115633.1410702469
http://m.theanimalrescuesite.greatergood.com/clickToGive/ars/home?origin=TRSblog_Footer&_ga=1.180038564.1487115633.1410702469

Or you can scroll to the very bottom of the OP's link. List of Greater Good sites you can click to help.

[NYC_SKP]

5. Glad for the outcome, but it was very painful to watch what they were doing.

If this is a common problem, I hope these these fine people have taken time since this incident to consider alternatives to the rope and Land Rover technique.

Having spent a lot of my early years operating equipment in underground construction projects, I really wanted to be there with even a small excavator or some picks and shovels.

I wasn't there, maybe they were just out of options, but I wish they'd have had some hand tools to dig away at the edge of the well to create more of a ramp.

It would have been very sad had their rope technique seriously injured the animal, this happens a lot with attempted livestock rescues and it's just not good.

Very glad this one worked out.

And I love how not only the mother but the entire community of elephants was relieved.

There's a longer video, but I can't find it.

To the effort:

[zentrum]

6. Exactly. Glad you said it.

There seemed to be several other ways, less painful, they could have slowly worked this baby out of the hole.

And what the heck is an uncovered well doing in the middle of their savannah? What about surrounding it with a low fence?

The truck following along to film the reunion seemed like it might scare the animals as well as it may have been perceived as pursuit.

Patience, beyond the needs of a good camera story, seemed warranted.

But yes, terribly happy this worked out.