This is the heartwarming moment an elephant reaches down with her trunk to pull her baby to safety after it became trapped in a watering hole.
The young elephant fell down a watering hole at the Addo Elephant National Park in South Africa and became stuck
The youngster’s mother arrived at the scene and had to decided what would be the best way to free her baby
She explained: ‘Finally the mother paid more attention to the baby and tried to help it out.
‘But the mother was very inexperienced, and she led the baby into the corner of the watering hole, where the walls were quite steep.
In the end the elephant decided to reach down with her trunk to try and pull her calf to safety
But despite the best efforts of the mother she was unable to free the baby, and eventually park rangers had to come and help
After being freed by the rangers, eventually mother and baby were reunited back on dry land