Images from Sᴏᴜᴛʜ Aғʀɪᴄᴀ showing an elephant mother rescuing her youngster from a watery pool have gone viral. By themselves, the mother and her herd dragged the infant from the water using their trunks.
The pictures were taken at Sᴏᴜᴛʜ Aғʀɪᴄᴀ’s Addo National Park, which is ᴄʟᴏsᴇ to Port Elizabeth and is home to over 600 elephants.
Amateur photographer Adele van Schalkwyk, a technologist at a private pathology lab in Vredenburg, Sᴏᴜᴛʜ Aғʀɪᴄᴀ, claimed she could feel the suffering of the herd as she was taking the pictures.
She reported that when she was taking these pictures, the kindness and camaraderie the elephants showed while assisting the baby sʜᴏᴄᴋed her. They had been keeping an eye on the infant ever since they got to the dam. They promptly collected and lifted it out using their trunks as it slid and fell in.
The 46-year-old photographer named the collection Together with Love after one of the images, which depicts four elephants supporting a calf. They made an attempt to keep the calf away from the water, according to Miss van Schalkwyk, who stated that she was extremely thrilled when photographing “the treasures of nature.”
You can plainly see one using her trunk to try to keep him at bay in one of the pictures. But like an impish child, he paid little attention to his surroundings and fell again. But they swiftly reached inside their trunks and helped him.
Source: https://dailylifeworld.com
