Conservationists in Kenya got a report that a baby elephant had fallen into a well. The problem was how to get it out with just a rope and an off-road vehicle.
Oct 18 2012
How to rescue a baby elephant from a well
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coragyps
October 18, 2012 at 5:50 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Dammit, Mano! You made me have a flashback to an episode – well, many episodes – of Lassie!
Rodney Nelson
October 18, 2012 at 6:26 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I was thinking the same thing. “What’s that, girl? You say a baby elephant’s fallen into the well?”
hopeleith
October 18, 2012 at 6:52 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
dammit, all this dust in my eyes from the video – it was seeing her run back to her mum that killed me.
robb
October 19, 2012 at 10:18 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
i flashed back to an episode of The Simpsons, when Bart faked falling into a well after another kid did. i wonder if Sting helped out the elephant?