Baby elephant rescued from well

This is the heart-warming moment a baby elephant is rescued after plunging into a three-metre deep well.

The one-year-old calf had stumbled into the pit after wandering into a rubber plantation with a herd of elephants in the early hours of Friday morning. While rescuers arrived to free the little male elephant, his was zapped after stumbling into an electric fence.

But after three hours of opening up the well with a digger, the calf scrambled free and rejoined his who had recovered from the stun. The pair scampered back off into the forest to rejoin other elephants just before sunrise yesterday morning in Chanthaburi province, eastern Thailand.

Resident Siriman Sripen, 29, who lives 200 metres from where the elephant fell, said: ''There are a lot of wild elephants in the area so we're used to this. But I was woken up because I heard the elephant was showing distress. She wa