Thursday, September 19, 2013

Baby elephant attacked by the mother cries for five hours

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The zookeepers were forced to intervene after a female elephant tried to trample her calf to death, soon after being born in a Chinese reserve, at the end of August. As a result, the newborn injured cried nonstop for hours.

His dam tried to crush the baby almost immediately after birth. Initially, the veterinarians Shendiaoshan Wild Animal Natural Reserve Area in Xuanwei, in Shandong province, thought to be an accident. Withdrew creates to treat their wounds and returned it to the mother, two hours later â€" but this began to step on it again. The handlers then decided to withdraw definitively the baby elephant to the progenitor.

What happened is touching: the infant cried for five hours. The staff tried to comfort him, but even that seemed to calm him down. Fortunately, creates is evolving well from injuries caused by his mother and has already been adopted by a handler.

"The calf was very upset and cried for five hours, before you can be comforted," said a spokesman for the reserve. "He could not bear to be separated from his mother and it was she who was trying to kill."

It is unknown why the female rebelling against the calf, but the case reinforces spectacularly the sensitivity of these wonderful animals.

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