Uploaded October 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Four Elephant calves were rescued using a digger in Sri Lanka after they had fallen into a slippery, muddy well.
A farmer had gone to work on his fields early Wednesday morning when he saw the four Elephants - all calves - stuck in one of his large wells.
The farmer quickly alarmed the wildlife officials who brought with them the digger to help with the operation.
In the video, locals can be seen throwing throwing food for the Elephants to eat and hosing them down to keep them comfortable in the well.
Two of the smaller Elephants nuzzle underneath one of the larger ones and they all munch on the tree leaves that have been given to them. Meanwhile the digger can been seen making a path as a crowd of locals looks on from above the well.
The only time the Elephants appear to be frightened is when the digger finally completes the path and the group huddles on the far side of the well.
Eventually one of the men who is helping rescue the group manages to coax the group along the newly dug path to safety.
After a rescue operation lasting four hours, the elephants eventually walk out of the well and are shooed away.
In the final part of the video the elephants are seen disappearing off into the bushes and the rescuers job is done.
Sri Lanka is known for its huge number of wild elephants who dominate national parks but stray out to the nearby villages in search of food.
While they rarely attack the villagers, there have been spate of incidents when the animals got stuck in pits and wells in the sugarcane and other fields and had to be rescued.
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Four Elephant calves were rescued using a digger in Sri Lanka after they had fallen into a slippery, muddy well.
A farmer had gone to work on his fields early Wednesday morning when he saw the four Elephants - all calves - stuck in one of his large wells.
The farmer quickly alarmed the wildlife officials who brought with them the digger to help with the operation.
In the video, locals can be seen throwing throwing food for the Elephants to eat and hosing them down to keep them comfortable in the well.
Two of the smaller Elephants nuzzle underneath one of the larger ones and they all munch on the tree leaves that have been given to them. Meanwhile the digger can been seen making a path as a crowd of locals looks on from above the well.
The only time the Elephants appear to be frightened is when the digger finally completes the path and the group huddles on the far side of the well.
Eventually one of the men who is helping rescue the group manages to coax the group along the newly dug path to safety.
After a rescue operation lasting four hours, the elephants eventually walk out of the well and are shooed away.
In the final part of the video the elephants are seen disappearing off into the bushes and the rescuers job is done.
Sri Lanka is known for its huge number of wild elephants who dominate national parks but stray out to the nearby villages in search of food.
While they rarely attack the villagers, there have been spate of incidents when the animals got stuck in pits and wells in the sugarcane and other fields and had to be rescued.
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