Baby Elephant Is Freed From Chains And Gets A New Mom

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When she starts splashing in the water for the very first time. Our producer Chelsi spoke to Aaron from Planting Peace about the moment Bamboo was adopted by a mama elephant

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00:00On another rescue mission, we're going to rescue this little girl.

00:04As you can see, she's just chained up and absolutely going crazy.

00:08Bamboo is four years old.

00:11She's just a baby.

00:14The first time we met Bamboo, she was off to the side, chained to a little piece of wood.

00:21It's just really incredibly sad to see baby open, to put in that situation and seeing them stressed out.

00:27This is just rough to see.

00:30The country of Laos, they basically force, once a year, all elephants around the country to kind of show up to these festivals.

00:40Everybody, you see that hook in his hand?

00:43That's what he's using to control the elephant.

00:46It was so, so hot that day, and I asked her Mahut, which is an elephant caretaker, if you want to call it that,

00:51and you bring her down to the river, just pull off, and he agreed to that.

00:55She started playing, tossing the water over her back.

01:01That's how it should be.

01:02That little moment, she felt freedom.

01:04You can see she just wants to play.

01:12Hey everybody, we'd like to introduce you to the newest free elephant in the world, Bamboo.

01:18And her new adoptive mother, Maylan.

01:24Hey, Maylan.

01:25We were able to negotiate her freedom, which is always just an incredible feeling,

01:31knowing that she's going to be a free elephant for the rest of her life,

01:34that she's going to be at the handle-out elephant sanctuary,

01:37even with the possibility of being released into the wild.

01:40One of the most incredible things that happened in this story is that

01:45a lot of elephant took her in, and took her in as her own.

01:48And they do everything together.

01:50That's something that we didn't know was going to happen.

01:53It's an amazing feeling.

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