This is the touching moment an elephant calf climbs out of an abandoned 40-feet well. <br /><br />The one-year-old female calf had spent 12 hours inside and was too exhausted to climb the steep path that had been dug to help it get out. <br /><br />It skidded down a few times while crawling up and stopped in exhaustion for some time. <br /><br />When it looked like it was going to give up, the calf mustered its last ounce of energy, and climbed out, prompting a large crowd of onlookers to break into an applause. <br /><br />The incident occurred at a forest in Dhenkanal, Odisha, India on June 12. <br /><br />A few residents of Jhumpudia village noticed that the calf had fallen into an abandoned well on the night of June 11. <br /><br />The next morning, alerted by villagers, forest officials brought in a digger and excavated a path out of the well to rescue the calf. <br /><br />The exhausted animal started to climb the path but kept slipping down. But as the villagers cheered it on, it climbed out showing impressive grit. <br /><br />A local villager Ramakantha Das said: “It took a lot of time, nearly four hours, to complete the rescue. The impatient calf kept coming in the way of the digger slowing down the work.” <br /><br />A forest official said the calf had been separated from its herd. “We will try to send it back to its herd,” he said.
