Help! Baby elephant falls down hole while out walking in Thailand
His startled expression and pleading eyes say it all. Left stranded in a rather undignified position, this poor baby elephant was in need of some urgent help after he managed to wedge himself in a manhole in Thailand.After missing his footing and falling down the gaping manhole of a drainage ditch the poor animal was left well and truly stuck.
The unfortunate accident took place while the elephant was out walking in the street with its owner in Rayong province, in the east of the country.
The baby had been taken out to work in the street by a mahout – the men who drive the elephants – but must not have been looking where he was going. Rescuers spent three hours freeing the elephant, who was unharmed, by using a bulldozer to widen the hole.
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