Adorable footage shows the moment a trapped baby elephant is given a helpful nudge with a JCB after getting stuck in the mud.
The poor creature was trying to have a mud bath to cool off in the summer heat in southern India on Saturday.
Adorable footage shows the moment a trapped baby elephant is given a lift after getting stuck in the mud in the Bandipur tiger reserve in Karnataka, southern India, on Saturday
Fortunately, onlookers alerted forestry officials, which look after the area, to rescue the young elephant and a yellow JCB digger helped the elephant get to its feet
The driver nudged the elephant a little with the digger to push it upright from its lying position so that the elephant was able to stand itself up in the muddy puddle, after becoming unstuck from the muck
The digger reversed to allow the elephant to stand by itself and make its way out of the mud while forestry officials kept it under watch for a few hours and left it after it seemed healthy