Category: Rescue Animals
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The sick mother elephant was rescued, but her eyes searched desperately—her calf gone, her heart breaking with every unanswered call.
In the Marudhamalai area of Coimbatore, a mother elephant is receiving treatment for dehydration with the help of the forest department. The officers are currently searching for the mother elephant’s missing calf. The Maruthamalai area leads to a dense forest, which is frequently visited by wild elephants. In recent days, many videos were circulated…
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In a touching reunion, the released elephant gently returned—proudly introducing her baby girl to the keepers who once saved her.
A beautiful moment of how a released and rehabilitated elephant mama returned to a rescue centre was captured on camera. What is incredible is that she momentarily visited the place to introduce her newborn baby to introduce her to the keepers of the place. Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, an NGO dedicated to helping orphaned elephants, shared…
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After a six-hour rescue struggle, the village wept as the beloved elephant, named after a deity, slipped away in the marsh.
Dramatic pictures have captured the desperate – but ultimately tragic – effort to rescue a stricken elephant trapped a swamp in India. Dozens of villagers battled for more than six hours to pull the stranded animal, named Ayyappan after a Hindu deity, from a quagmire on the banks of the Vembanad Lake, near the southern…
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I spotted an ‘absolutely huge’ UFO hovering silently over my neighbor’s house—its lights pulsing like it was scanning something below.
John Nicholls, 45, was in bed watching TV with his wife, Maureen, 50, at 9 pm on November 17 when he looked out the window and noticed an object in the sky. Nicholls dismissed it as a meteor or a planet but says it started making “odd shapes and changing colors” — going from…
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Too young to know he was an elephant, baby Ndotto wandered with cattle—lost, confused, and waiting for someone to remember him.
They say that elephants never forget – but this confused baby certainly got himself in a muddle when he became separated from his herd. The young elephant and his family became mixed up with livestock belonging to the Samburu community in the remote Ndoto Mountains in Northern Kenya. Thirsty work: Ndotto the elephant, who got…
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Trapped and dying in pain, the elephant lay motionless—unaware that kind hands were racing through the forest to save him.
We may never know how long he was lying there, but we do know that help came just in time. Warning: Graphic images below An elephant was found in Malawi’s Liwonde National Park completely debilitated by a snare trap digging into the flesh of his foot. But people were not going to let him…
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Heartbreaking images capture the elephant’s tear-streaked face, her eyes filled with sorrow and pain just moments before she took her last breath.
Newly released images from an Indonesian zoo have animal lovers up in arms this week. The heartbreaking photos show Yani, a Sumatran female elephant, sobbing moments before she passed away on Wednesday, after suffering from “blistering skin” and reportedly receiving minimal treatment. The 34-year-old endangered elephant died in a zoo in Bandung, West Java —…
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The heartbroken elephant stood over her dead calf, unmoving—refusing food, her silent grief stretching through endless days of unbearable loss.
Forest rangers in Gudalur, southern India, are increasingly worried about the female elephant, which has refused to eat and stands guarding her baby. Rangers say it shows the deep bond between mother and child elephants Heartbreaking pictures show an elephant who refuses to leave her dead calf’s corpse – refusing food and charging at anyone…
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Orphaned and alone, the baby elephants found each other—now inseparable, their bond blossomed through shared sorrow and a ranger’s gentle care.
Two orphaned baby elephants have become best friends after being rescued by a wildlife trust. Ashaka and Kamok were discovered in the wild separately after being abandoned by their mothers a year ago. Ashaka (left) and Kamok (right) were rescued by rangers and taken to the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Nairobi National Park in…
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In Kenya, orphaned baby elephants are cradled with love—each rescue a tender promise of healing, hope, and a second chance.
To mark World Elephant Day, the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust has released behind-the-scenes pictures of efforts to save orphaned baby elephants in Africa, where up to 35,000 animals are killed for their tusks each year. As elephant populations suffer losses from poaching, habitat destruction and human conflict, the charity travels across Kenya to treat injured…