Category: Rescue Animals

Shocking footage captures the moment an elephant was chained down during a traumatic birth, nearly trampling her calf in distress. An elephant handler risked his life to pull the newborn baby from beneath its mother, after it had endured a difficult three day birth. Shocking footage captures the moment an elephant was chained down during…

For nearly 40 years, she’s swayed in silence, her only companions the echoes of a life she never chose.

—

by

This elephant’s life is defined by concrete – the floors are concrete, the walls are concrete and even the “trees” are concrete. Mali, a 43-year-old Asian elephant, was actually born in the wild in Sri Lanka. But when she was just a baby, people ripped her away from her family and transported her to the…

Bloodied and trembling, the elephant collapsed as strangers raced against time, praying their help wasn’t too late.

—

by

No one knows how long an African elephant suffered with a spear lodged in his back – but when people heard about his plight, they knew they had to help him. The bull elephant had been injured by people from the Maasai tribe in Kenya, who had thrown the spear at him when he presumably…

With gentle hands and kind hearts, the men freed the trapped elephant, reuniting her with her mother in joyful tears.

—

by

Many animals suffering from drought in Africa are desperate for rain — but when it comes, it can cause some unexpected problems. For one devoted elephant mom with a newborn, a sudden shower threatened to separate her from her baby forever. The baby had slipped into a drinking trough in Kenya’s Tsavo National Park, and…

Orphaned but not alone, the elephant lifts her dog friends with joy—three souls bound by unexpected, beautiful friendship.

—

by

An orphaned elephant displayed her inseparable bond with two rescue dogs as she took her canine friends for a ride on her back in Thailand. Six-year-old female elephant Valentine sits down and lets the two-year-old black Labrador Hiccup sit on her back at the Tiemchan Elephant Camp in Chiang Mai, Thailand The elephant, who was born…

Desperate to save her babies, the mother elephant sank too—three hearts trapped in mud, waiting for a miracle together.

—

by

A family of African elephants made a lucky escape after they became stuck in a muddy pool in Kenya. Pictured: A family of three elephants – a mother and two youngsters – managed to get themselves stuck in the mud in Kenya Conservationist Dr Kieran Avery, 34, from Kenya received a call from members of the…

In each joyful frame, baby elephants huddle like siblings, their trunks entwined in a story of healing, love, and newfound family.

—

by

Rolling in the mud without a care in the world, peeking out from beneath a blanket and kicking around with a football: it’s all play and no work for these adorable baby African elephants. Adorable: Baby elephant Kamok peeps out at the camera from beneath her comfort blanket. The youngest elephants have blankets to remind…

Amid the rustling leaves, healing notes floated from the piano, wrapping the weary elephants in a tender embrace of music.

—

by

This is the incredible moment a classical pianist played music for injured and elderly rescue elephants in the Thai jungle. Paul Barton has been putting on his unique performances since 2011, and said he believes Bach and Beethoven can help rehabilitate animals In one video, a young elephant is seen chomping on sticks he found…

With eyes full of sorrow, the loyal dog curled beside the dying elephant, refusing to say goodbye.

May 22, 2025

—

by