Baby Calf is Rescued

Elephant conservationists learned of a baby elephant stuckin a well in Kenya and conducted a rescue. The team starts out in a video by pushing the mother of the calf away from the well that the baby had fallen into. These were of course safety measures the team was forced to make. After the mother was out of sight or at least a fair distance away, the team of about 3 got to work. They assessed which side of the well would be easiest to get the elephant out of and tried to coax the baby to face that way. The calf didn’t respond though because her mother was calling her from the opposite direction. After trying and trying to get some rope hooked on to her they tried to pull the calf and didn’t succeed. After a second time though they drug the baby up the less steep side and got her out. The team then jumped into their jeep and “herded” the calf back to its mother who let out a cry as her baby came closer. At the end of the video, the mother is seen somewhat wrapping her trunk around the calf for an embrace.

Its really cool that this team was able to get the baby out of the well by themselves. Also, I think its awesome that there was a team who could come to this calf’s rescue. Im sure that if there wasn’t a team, some locals would figure out a way to help but who knows how long that would have taken. Im not sure if elephants give up that easily but im sure most mothers after a while would accept that their baby wasn’t getting out. Elephants I know are more connected so im not sure. But the baby would have exhausted its self trying so hard to get out that by the time a local team came, it wouldn’t be much help to them if it couldn’t move or lift its legs to get rope around its body.