Tuesday, December 11, 2018

That's no Dumbo! Trapped elephant clambers out of canal after rescuers throw it an ingenious ladder made of rope, tyres and sticks


This is the ingenious moment a lost elephant was able to clamber onto a specially crafted rope ladder and escape from a canal.

The elephant, estimated to be 25-years-old, had fallen into a canal in Welikanda near Polonnaruwa, eastern Sri Lanka, when wildlife officials decided to devise a plan.

Footage shows the elephant wade across the canal's waters before spotting the specially crafted rope ladder made for him by the Department of Wildlife Conservation.

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