Baby Elephant Cries For 5 Hours After Mother Tries To Kill Him.

Horrified zookeepers were forced to intervene after a female elephant attempted to stamp her calf to death shortly after he was born. The female elephant had stepped on baby Zhuangzhuang almost immediately after giving birth at a Chinese zoo on August 30. But vets initially thought it was an accident. They removed the calf to treat his injuries and returned him to his mother two hours later - but she started to stamp on him again. Keepers drove her off and took the little elephant away
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The calf was very upset and he was crying for five hours before he could be consoled', a spokesman said.
'He couldn't bear to be parted from his mother and it was his mother who was trying to kill him.
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