Category: Rescue Animals

A photo taken by former Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus trainer Sam Haddock shows what life is like for the baby elephants born into the circus. The photo captures just a portion of the arduous journey circus elephants go through, which begins when they’re forcibly taken away from their mothers, sometimes at just…

This is the moment vets flew to the rescue of an elephant calf after it became trapped in a snare laid by poachers in Kenya. Footage shows the baby elephant unable to free its ankle from the tight loop of rope binding it to a stake in the ground in a remote area of the Tana River…

Wallowing in the mud is glorious fun for elephants young and old. But when you’re still only a baby, trying to stand up again in all that lovely slippery stuff when playtime is over takes a mammoth effort. ‘This mud bath has gone wrong mum, I can’t get up!’ This poor little fellow was left…

An orphaned baby elephant, recently rescued and placed in a wildlife sanctuary, is melting hearts as she learns to navigate life on her own, including mastering the use of her trunk. Abandoned at a young age, this little elephant had not yet fully developed the skills most young elephants learn from their mothers. Trunks are…

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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…

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The fifty-year-old male jumbo named Khun Pan had been working at the Chang Siam Park in Chonburi, eastern Thailand, giving rides to tourists until the Covid-19 pandemic hit the industry, with holidaymakers banned from visiting. Tragically, the elephant was left to starve – becoming so thin that his bones were protruding from his skin. Khun…

This is the adorable moment a baby elephant and its family walk through an area cleared by lumberjacks. Phantom the elephant was filmed struggling to cross a fallen tree trunk in Chowkham village, in north east India, on Monday afternoon The elephant family are regulars in the village and a local tends to them and uses…

In the dusty outskirts of a small village in southern India, a heartbreaking scene has captured global attention: Manu, a frail elephant with pleading eyes, stands by the roadside, gently extending his trunk to passing cars — not for food, but for help. Locals say Manu once belonged to a traveling circus that shut down…