Baby Elephant Sleeps On Carer's Lap

This is the heart-warming moment an orphaned baby elephant returns to her carer's lap - days after being released into the wild and rejected by her own herd. The two-year-old jumbo named Chabakeaw was found trapped alone in mud in Bueng Kan, northeastern Thailand on April 4 and was rescued by wildlife officers. After five months of being hand-reared and nurtured, the department decided to release the baby back to her natural herd on September 18. However, on September 20 the officers discovered that she had