Baby Elephant Forced To Work At A Camp Is Thrilled To Be Freed From Chains

The Dodo

Chained-up baby elephant who was ripped from his mom gets the best new home — and meets another rescued elephant who insists on being his mama

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00:00I know. I know.

00:04Good boy, sweetheart.

00:07My heart broke for him.

00:09He was staying on a daily basis,

00:11with the pen chained up all day and just getting fed,

00:14just waiting for tourists to get him some food.

00:16His mental health was definitely compromised

00:19from his captive situation.

00:21After taking three weeks to raise the money

00:29in collaboration with Planting Peace,

00:31it was time to transport Mongkorn to Sanctuary.

00:34We went to the supermarket and loaded up on

00:36fruits and veggies.

00:38What's up guys, we're here with the truck

00:40that we're going to unload Mongkorn.

00:43We got him after midnight.

00:44We arrive into this park to get him in the depths,

00:47the dark.

00:48Good boy, yay.

00:52He's there, he just came in, no problem.

00:55And yeah, we're good to go.

00:58It's the last stop and he's not happy.

01:00He's really, really upset.

01:03He was slamming his trunk against the side of the truck.

01:06He was stamping his feet.

01:08You can't explain to them,

01:09there's light at the end of this tunnel,

01:11we're bringing you some more powder.

01:13I think two more hours.

01:15We've got to go stop and give him some more food now

01:17in about 20 minutes.

01:18We're just picking up some more fruits, right,

01:21for Mongkorn because he's a little bit hungry

01:23and he's being a bit fussy.

01:25I don't know if he was eating it

01:26or throwing it out of the truck,

01:27but the food was disappearing.

01:30He's going to be so happy when he gets home.

01:32I hope so.

01:37Bye, baby.

01:42The journey was 16 hours.

01:43We were all in a little van following him

01:45behind the whole time.

01:46It was a long journey,

01:47but so worth it because he's gone to exactly

01:50where he needed to go.

01:56It was a really cool moment

01:57to get him out of the truck after such a long journey.

02:03He went from psychopathic in the truck

02:05to just like walk down to the side

02:09where they had this little buffet waiting for him.

02:14When you take off chain, Mongkorn is like,

02:16why take chain?

02:19We let them walk free with another elephant.

02:23He really looked like a little baby

02:25with all these other big elephants around him.

02:27It's amazing.

02:34At that round, she's like the second mom.

02:41There are certain females

02:42that will take on that role of a nanny.

02:44They will come in and literally help raise the young.

02:48He's really lucky to have her.

02:50He'll learn a lot from her.

02:52It's lovely to see.

02:54He's a very, very happy baby elephant.

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