Category: Rescue Animals

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A baby elephant was rescued with just minutes to spare after spending over 12 hours stuck in a mudpool. The young bull was spotted with mud up to its neck by a group of tourists on safari along the Zambezi River in Africa. He said: ‘Elephants are particularly drawn to these areas and when moving…

Tears streamed down his weathered face as the half-blind elephant tasted freedom after fifty years of silent suffering.

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This half-blind elephant has finally been rescued after he spent 50 years being locked up and illegally forced to take part in wedding ceremonies. Concerned animal lovers apparently spotted the ailing three-and-half tonne jumbo, named Sanjay, tied up with spiked chains by his cruel captors. Within hours of moving into his new home, Sanjay appeared…

A lost baby elephant gently wandered in, and the family’s hearts melted as the children whispered, “Can we keep her?”

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It can be hard to address the elephant in the room; however it becomes considerably easier when one is standing in your lounge. Staff at a game reserve in Zululand, South Africa found themselves with an unusual problem after a 10-day-old baby elephant ran away from its mother and ended up in their garden. How…

Touching moment I have ever seen. With tears in his eyes, the elephant turned to the villagers, his gaze a silent thank you for saving his life.

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A six-year-old female elephant was rescued dramatically when she fell 30ft into a dried-up farm well in Southern India. Heart stopping footage shows the distressed animal trying and failing to get a foothold to climb out of the parched well, in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Rescuers in Southern India battled to save…

The old, frail elephant cried out in pain, unable to move as a massive tumor had crippled him for over a month. He cried out softly for help as we approached.

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This footage is about an old and weak elephant with a tumor in his leg. It was seen having trouble walking around as well. Wildlife officers are always on time at such dire situations, and they wanted to treat this elephant after a checkup quickly. They were able to tag along with a minister in…

Covered in mud and tears, the baby elephant collapsed again, too exhausted to rise, searching for comfort that never came.

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At three weeks old, this baby Asian elephant loves spending the day scampering around his enclosure in a bid to find his feet. But it seems the calf is still trying to get to grips with his tiny legs after he fell trunk-first into the mud when his feet got tangled up. Unsteady: Three-week old…

With gentle trunks and unwavering care, the elephant herd lifted the panicked calf, proving family means never struggling alone.

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This is the heartwarming moment a large herd of elephants stop to help a panicking calf get up a steep river bank. The young pachyderm desperately tries to follow a huge adult over a ridge in the MalaMala Game reserve in South Africa. The baby flounders and trips as it scrapes away at the ledge looming…

“Wake up, Mum!” the baby cried, nudging her still body, unaware she’d never rise from that dark, deep ditch.

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This is the moment a baby elephant tried to wake its mother while another tried to pull the injured adult to safety after the two animals fell into a 20ft ditch. Video captured the moment a baby elephant tried to wake its mother after the two animals fell into a 20ft ditch Helping hand: Footage shows…

Barely clinging to life, the orphaned calf was saved by kind strangers—his eyes now shine with hope, not fear.

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An emaciated orphaned elephant calf was rescued from the wild in Kenya after tourists spotted him struggling to survive after a jackal attack- and is now thriving in a wildlife orphanage. The baby elephant, who was three or four months old at the time, was found wandering and struggling to survive outside Tsavo East National Park…

From grief to grace, the once-traumatized calf now thrives with joy, her mother’s love forever guiding her steps.

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