Lifesaving surgery to reconstruct the badly injured trunk of a poor elephant | Hunter’s snare

This miserable baby elephant was noticed deep in the wild, suffering from an unspeakable pain from a wire stuck in his trunk. The trunk is very important for the survival of elephant, as it is useful for the elephants for several purposes such as smelling, trumpeting, breathing and drinking etc.. At the time when the wildlife rescue team arrived the jungle to treat this elephant calf, he was wandering with the herd near a lake. Elephant was in a critical stage and he required immediate medical attention. They thoroughly cleaned the wound and stitch together the elephant’s trunk. But after regaining the consciousness after sedation, the But reaching the elephant at once is dangerous since the elephants are well known to be aggressive in difficult situations. The situation is more critical, as the baby elephant is with its herd and elephants are more defensive when they are in a group. First they have to calm down and sedate the elephant with anesthetic which is administered using a tranquilizer gun. They admin