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Wild elephants thank humans for saving their stranded calf

Posted by / November 30, 2017

This elephant calf was stuck in a ditch; the walls were too steep for it to get out, and it was too deep for the elephants to pull the calf out. Fortunately there were some people nearby with a backhoe. Using the backhoe, they were able to push enough dirt down into the ditch to make a kind of dirt stepping stool. After the baby elephant gets out, the adults come by and offer up a salute of thanks to the humans.

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