VIDEO: Baby Elephant Tries to Wake Up His Mother, Not Knowing She Is Dead

Elephants are incredible creatures that are as kind and gentle as they are huge. While their size might terrify some, they will never hurt someone on purpose and they do not attack people like other animals that aren’t even half their size.

They have helped people on a number of occasions and they have been used for transportation, work and even in wars. But now all the elephants want is to be left to live in peace.

The problem is that we keep ruining their environment and hunting them for trophies that we do not need.

These wonderful creatures have done nothing wrong to us and still we keep killing them directly or indirectly. This is why all those that have a heart have died a little on the inside when they saw this video of the saddest baby elephant in the world.

According to express.co.uk, hearts across the world have broken for the helpless young elephant calf who refused to leave the side of his dead mother.

The tragic footage shows the baby elephant repeatedly nudging its mum in a desperate attempt to wake her up.

Even when workers tried to take the two-year-old baby away, he rushed back to his mother, according to the Times of India.

The mother died from internal bleeding after she fell down and died near Kavadiammal temple in Pallam, India, on Tuesday.

The mother and son were walking along a forest path when she fell and collapsed. The 25-year-old elephant was believed to have died immediately after the fall.

Her orphaned calf was found by forest workers lying by his mother in a “confused and sad” state. Her son spent a day and a half prodding her with his hooves, rubbing her with his trunk and chasing away anyone who came near her.

He also brushes her with branches, flips her ears with his tusk and even lies across the side of her body in the Indian wildlife.
Forest workers told NDTV that the calf could be heard “crying” as he failed to revive his mother.

One official told the Indian Express: “We decided not to drive away the calf. It is expected to move away by night, when it starts feeling the smell of decay from the carcass.”

Forest Department officials finally managed to separate the calf from the elephant after 36 hours. They lured the calf away with bananas, sugarcane and jackfruits. The calf was taken three kilometres away where he will be left to join a new herd.

Ranger Dinesh Kumar told The Hindu said: “Two special teams will monitor the calf till it is accepted by the herd. “We have also placed apples, bananas and pomegranates at a few places for the calf to feed as it is upset over its mother’s death. “However, it was feeding on greens and is in good health.”

Meanwhile, the heartbreaking video has sparked a debate over the condition of animals in the local forest.  This is the fifth elephant dying in the Narasipuram forest within a span of 15 days.