This forest guard is one of those persons who is ready to do all it takes to find a helpless animal. This hero, upon coming upon a newborn elephant in need of help, immediately picked it up and carried it to safety on his shoulders.
The incident was recorded on camera, and the popular pictures have just lately resurfaced online!
Palanichamy Sarathkumar, a 28-year-old ranger from Tamil Nadu, India, was heading back home after a night-shift when he got a call about a distressed elephant blocking a road.
He and some of his colleagues rushed to the scene and they managed to head the elephant back into the woods. But only after a few minutes Sarathkumar realized the reason the elephant was in distressed.
That’s when he discovered a newborn elephant that had been stuck in a ditch. Because the little creature was just too feeble to move, the devoted ranger accomplished the impossibility.
Even though the animal weighed more than he did, he simply put it onto his shoulders.
“We spotted it [baby elephant] stuck inside a small ditch,” Sarathkumar told BBC NEWS. “It was exhausted and confused, so I thought to carry it. It was very heavy, but I just lifted it on the spur of the moment.”
Despite he weighs around 186ls, Sarathkumar somehow managed to lift the 220lbs baby elephant on his back, and carry it to safety. The crying calf was eventually reunited with its mother.
“Initially four of us carried,” the ranger said. “Our plan was to take it to the other side of the road to reunite it with its mother. But there was a danger of being attacked as she was still nearby. So I decided to carry the calf by myself across the road.”
Flashback pic. Rescue of an elephant calf by a forest guard from TamilNadu made news. Mr. Palanichamy carried the half on his shoulders which had fallen into a ditch. The calf was later united with its mother. pic.twitter.com/VKqbD3hrc0
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The locals praised the ranger as a hero when a video of him dragging the helpless animal through the woods went popular online!
The man added, “A lot of people called to congratulate me.” The same question is now being posed to me by everyone in my community. How on earth did you move an elephant?
You can see Sarathkumar carrying the newborn elephant on his shoulders right here!
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