Baby Elephant Viral Video: A touching video is spreading quickly online, showing a baby elephant’s sweet thank you gesture after a brave rescue. This heartwarming moment has captured the attention of thousands on social media. The incident took place in the forests of Lailunga-Gharghoda, Raigarh district, where a large group of elephants had come to drink water. Unfortunately, a young elephant slipped and got trapped in a deep, muddy hole. The baby elephant called out loudly for help, and its cries reached nearby villagers.

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Hearing the distress, the villagers quickly called the forest department for help. The forest team arrived fast and used a JCB machine along with shovels to carefully soften the steep edges of the pit. This created a gentle path for the baby elephant to climb out safely.

What touched everyone’s heart was what happened next. As the little elephant climbed out, it gently touched the JCB machine with its trunk, a lovely way of saying ‘thank you’ to the machine that helped save its life. This beautiful moment reminds us of kindness and the strong connection between humans and animals during times of need.

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The video was shared by ANI on X (Formerly Twitter) with the caption: “An elephant calf shows gratitude after it was rescued from a mud pit in the forest area by the personnel of the Forest Department in Gharghoda, Raigarh.” The video shared today received 350k views and many comments from people.

One user wrote, “This is true gratitude, which many humans have forgotten. After taking help, they forget who helped.” “Forest officials in Chhattisgarh did a very good job. They rescued the elephant safely with the help of villagers and the administration. The elephant was released back into the forest. This work of the forest department is commendable,” a second user added. “That little trunk wave says more than words ever could,” added a third user.

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“We humans should feel blessed if an animal is showing us some gratitude even though we are intruding on their privacy & most of the time, we are cruel to them!” a fourth user wrote. “The emotional intelligence of elephants, as shown in this calf's gratitude, emphasizes their capacity for empathy and social bonding,” a fifth user wrote. “Humans are the only species who don't show gratitude and rather bite the hands that feed them,” another user added.