Elephant calf stuck in Kinabatangan mud-hole rescued by wildlife rangers


KOTA KINABALU: A baby Bornean pygmy elephant was reunited with its mother on Friday after wildlife rangers rescued it from a mud hole at a Kinabatangan plantation.

The Wildlife Rescue Unit rangers helped the calf out of the hole as its mother and the rest of the herd watched from a distance at the plantation, said Sabah Wildlife Department assistant director Dr Sen Nathan said in a Facebook post.

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