A heartbreaking video captured the moment a team of vets, national park staff and volunteers had to perform CPR on a large mother elephant as her baby screamed nervously.
The incident began when the team successfully rescued a baby elephant that had fallen into a shaft with its mother on Wednesday in Khao Yai National Park in Nakhon Nayok province in central Thailand.
The one-year-old calf fell into a drainage hole and the mother refused to leave it, guarding her baby while the young elephant was stuck, park officials confirmed to Reuters.
When the rescue team arrived, they used anesthetic injections to calm the distraught mother elephant, but the startling commotion caused her to fall halfway into the hole.
However, the script allowed the baby elephant to suckle from its mother, which calmed the calf down a bit.
Rescue workers had to perform CPR on a mother elephant while trying to save her baby from a drain hole. REUTERS A crane was brought out to pull the mother elephant out of the hole when she fainted, possibly from stress. Reuters The baby elephant was crying and trying to get out of the hole as its mother lay unconscious in the mud. Reuters
Rescuers used a crane to lift the mother, but she then passed out, possibly from stress. The video shows staff members jumping up and down the large creature’s body in an attempt to perform CPR to revive the elephant.
The calf cried out and tried to escape the hole as it tried to run towards its mother but struggled and slipped in the mud.
As part of the team continued their efforts to rescue the mother, a construction excavator was brought out to create an escape route for the baby elephant.
The young elephant immediately rushed to her unconscious mother as the rescue efforts paid off. The mother elephant stood up to hug her child as the team quickly rushed to allow the family to return to the wild in peace.
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