WATCH: Baby elephant reunited with its mother after falling down well
A baby elephant had to be rescued after it plunged into a three-metre deep well.
The one-year-old calf had stumbled into the pit after wandering into a rubber plantation with a herd of elephants in the early hours of Friday morning.
While rescuers arrived to free the little male elephant, his mother suffered another upset when she was zapped after stumbling into an electric fence.
A team of around 15 rescue workers and wildlife park rangers arrived and brought the excavator to help free the baby elephant.
They smashed open the side of the well to create a muddy slope which the calf was able to clamber up.
After three hours of opening up the well with a digger, the calf scrambled free and re-joined his mother who had recovered from the stun.
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The pair scampered back off into the forest to join other elephants just before sunrise morning in Chanthaburi province, eastern Thailand.
"There are a lot of wild elephants in the area so we're used to this," said resident Siriman Sripen, 29, who lives 200 metres from where the elephant fell.
"But I was woken up because I heard the mother elephant was showing distress. She was moody and unsettled because the young baby had fallen into the hole.
"That's when I called the wildlife staff for help."
Boonnak Pimmuang, head of elephant care in the Kaeng Hang Maeo district forest, said: *We received reports at 3am about the baby elephant trapped in the hole.
"The staff coordianted the use of the backhoe (digger) to free the calf as quickly as possible.
"The rescue was successful and the baby rejoined its mother.*
