Category: Rescue Animals

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Twenty-year-old Kothai, a female elephant, who is short chained and cramped in a small concrete shed in Adi Keshava Perumal temple in Sriperumbadur for nearly 20 hours a day is likely to develop chronic health conditions, if proper care is not taken. As per the official records, accessed by Express, Kothai was born in 1998…

Trapped and sinking fast, the elephant cried out—until volunteers raced against time, uniting in a desperate battle to save her.

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These pictures show how a band of volunteers managed to rescue an elephant who had got herself in a tight spot by falling into a sewage drain. I’m stuck! Guests and staff at the Ugab Rest Camp in Namibia found this elephant cow trapped in a sewage drain when they woke up one morning Trapped:…

29 Years Alone: Sunny the Elephant’s Heartbreaking Life in a Tiny Cell

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For nearly three decades, Sunny has known nothing but cold concrete walls and solitude. Locked away in a tiny, barren enclosure at a rundown facility, this elderly elephant has spent 29 long years completely alone—no soft earth beneath her feet, no companion to touch trunks with, no sunlight filtering through trees. Just silence, steel bars,…

“Poor baby, we will help,” whisper rescuers, surrounding the grieving calf with love—gently lifting her heart and tiny feet again.

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The 9-month-old elephant, which rescuers have named Bani (Mother Earth), was hit by a speeding train near Corbett National Park in northern India in mid-December, leaving her seriously injured and paralyzed. Bani’s mother, who was pregnant at the time, died in the same accident. A veterinary worker at the Wildlife SOS Elephant Conservation and Care…

A furious bull hurls the baby elephant through the air—twice—before the mother charges in, thundering with unstoppable, protective fury.

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The baby elephant can be seen to be lifted by the bull’s trunk before being dropped in the dirt before he returned and kicked the tiny calf over. A young calf is picked up by an adult elephant and tossed into the air in front of shocked tourists at the Addo Elephant National Park in…

“C’mon baby, you can do it!” rescuers plead, as the starving, lost elephant stumbles—eyes searching for the family it lost.

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This is not about keeping this baby elephant captive, and it’s about keeping them safe and taking care of this baby elephant until it recovers from the current state and its relevant herd is found. These baby elephants cannot rejoin any other herds it is an outsider to. In Sri Lanka, so many baby elephants…

After raiding a village and downing 30 liters of wine, two elephants collapse giggling—one slurs, “Help! My legs quit!”

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This is the bizarre moment a pair of ‘drunken’ elephants are seen staggering around a tea field before collapsing into a pile next to each other after raiding a nearby village. The incident was captured by villagers in Yunnan, southwestern China who claim the elephants ransacked their grain alcohol store, drinking 30 litres of corn…

Terrified of water, the rescued elephant steps in anyway—just to guide her blind best friend, whispering, “I’ll do it for you.”

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The blind elephant had been rescued from a trekking camp, where she’d been forced to work, and all she wanted to do was relax and make new friends. As soon as she met Malai Ngun, her wish came true. Malai Ngun was also rescued from a trekking camp, so she knew all too well what…

In a terrifying instant, the raging elephant lunged and slammed the woman to the ground after she mocked it with a banana.

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