Baby elephant 'cries' for five hours after mother tried to stamp him to death shortly after birth

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.



Distressed: The calf was born on August 30 and his mother rejected him immediately



Red-eyed: The baby cried for five hours after he was separated from his parent and is now being brought up by keepers



The rejected calf then reportedly cried for five hours as staff at the Shendiaoshan Wild Animal Natural Reserve Area, in Rongcheng, Shandong province, tried to comfort him.
He is now making good progress and has been adopted by a keeper.

Angry elephant: The calf's mother was chased away from her baby as she had tried to kill him



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2417554/Elephant-calf-cries-hours-mother-tried-stamp-death-shortly-birth.html

Wetin concern me?

Wat? Cant imagine the elephant doing that to her child.What went wrong? #touching.

It must be a bast@d child May be the mother elephant was rap.ed by an arm robber elephant and she doesnt want the child to remind her of the father.

Mubby4luv: .

Busted!!!

So touching

I guess the mother elephant must have tried on several occasions to abort the baby but the pikin no gree. So she (mother) had to do "hard reset"..

like srzly

If dis could make ASUU call off the strike, i would have laughed

wow!! they got feelings too?

Perhaps it was an unwanted pregnancy and since there was no means for abortion hence the mother elephant waited for the delivery to get rid of the baby elephant. Couldn't just imagine anything else

too bad.

wicked mother

she been try to abort am but d pikin sha comot, dats y she dey vex............... she wan b like LAGOS BABES

Eeeeeyaaaaa! Wat a pity. And we thought humans are the only cruel species when it comes to some wicked mothers.

The TINZ mother would do for END TIME

Signs of end time... Animals are nw displaying dat sign, nawaoh, i don take my eyes see my ear

baby elephant sorry o, probably your mother sees you as an unwanted child. Dont worry you'll grow up to be great and she'll regret her action.

84 views and its already on front page! Gush! Mod carry that tin go back page.


On a second tot, wetim him do im mama wey she wan kil am? *money rituals*

Animals sometimes behave like humans.
Same way Nigerian Government wants University education to die in Nigeria.

*speechless*

I know goodluck jonathan course this,

NOTE: This news is from a confirm source

Elephants dey cry? SMH...

This's sad!

All things weird and wonderful happen in China

Hmmm

Awwww! This touched me, poor baby elephant, I wish I could hug you and just let you know it will be well.

Dont mind your mama oooo, Ise eyan maa nii ise eranko.

Bless you little baby elephant.

Abi de pikin no fine?! wicked mother!!

what's the story nowmy hen too wanted to kill her chick yesterday!!! but why this on frontpage?