Residents of Thailand saw a baby elephant on the road in the eastern province of Chantaburi, who was hit by the wheels of a motorcycle. The driver hit the cub as it was crossing the road with its family. Both the motorcyclist and the baby elephant were injured.
A team of ambulance personnel arrived just in time. People asked them to help, and Mana Srivate immediately rushed to save the elephant. In 26 years of work, the man has saved many lives, but he has never resuscitated an elephant.
Srivate began giving the elephant cardiopulmonary resuscitation while his colleagues were a few meters away rescuing an injured motorcyclist.
«I assumed where the elephant’s heart was after watching a video beforehand,» the man says.
Luckily, after a few minutes, the elephant began to show signs of life and moved! A life was saved!
«I was very worried rescuing the baby elephant while in the distance the mother elephant and other relatives were screaming calling for him. I couldn’t contain my emotions when he moved,» the rescuer recalled.
The baby elephant was then taken to a rescue center where it recovered, and soon it was brought back and released to its family. The elephant mother immediately recognized her baby, and the baby ran toward her. Thank you to the kind man who saved this little life!
