Daily Mail by Adam Solomons 7/15/2022
Incredible moment vets save mother elephant’s life in front of her worried calf by jumping up and down on her to give CPR after pulling the pair out of a drain in Thailand
• Vets used crane to pull stranded mother elephant out of golf drain before marathon three-hour CPR operation
• The 10-year-old bull hit her head on the edge of the concrete structure, violently knocking her unconscious
• Vets in Nakhon Nayok, central Thailand pulled her out the hole using a cherry picker as her daughter watched
• Dr Chananya: 'This experience touched our hearts and will be one of the most memorable rescues we've done'
This is the inspiring moment a mother elephant was saved when vets conducted CPR by leaping up and down on her chest as her young daughter watched on.
The 10-year-old bull and her baby calf, one, had slipped into a concrete drain amid heavy rain in Nakhon Nayok, central Thailand yesterday afternoon.
A storm had made the grass wet and muddy, causing the pair to fall into the 7ft-deep hole.
Torrential monsoon rain made it near-impossible to retrieve the pair, with vets mobilising a cherry picker to pull the huge mammals out the drain.
But after the mother hit her head and was knocked out cold, her life was suddenly at risk.
Incredible video shows the mammoth three-hour operation to pull the elephants out to safety - and then save the mother.
Lead national park vet Dr Chananya Kanchanasarak said: ‘It was impossible to get near the baby while the mother was nearby so we gave her three doses of tranquilisers but she moved towards her baby before passing out and hit her head.'
More:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11012791/Incredible-moment-vets-save-elephant-worried-calf-jumping-CPR.htmlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uyIKIeoMA4&t=56s
