Elephants Comfort Comrades During Rescue in China

Elephants are intelligent, highly social animals that are known to comfort and protect each other. This sympathetic behavior is on display in the above video, which shows the rescue of three Asian elephants in the Yunnan Province in southwest China.

The elephants were trapped for two days in a man-made pond with steep concrete walls, villagers told CCTV+. As the animals struggled, unable to climb out, other elephants came to their assistance.

The free elephants reached their trunks down into the pond, in displays that suggest they may have been trying to help, or at least comfort, the trapped animals. (Watch the touching reunion between a rescued elephant and her mother.)

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