Watch: 'Compassionate' elephant returns shoe dropped by child
Video has surfaced showing an elephant using its trunk to pick up a child’s shoe, which had fallen into its enclosure, and gently return the shoe to the child.
“He is confined. But not his spirits & compassion,” Susanta Nanda described on X. “Returns the shoe of a child which accidentally fell in its enclosure.”
He is confined. But not his spirits & compassion
Returns the shoe of a child which accidentally fell in its enclosure.
(Free wild from cages) pic.twitter.com/odJyfIjM9Y— Susanta Nanda (@susantananda3) September 28, 2023
Nanda works for the Indian Forest Service, but the footage he obtained is from a facility in Weihai in Shandong Province, China.
Nanda added a hopeful sentiment in parenthesis: “Free wild [animals] from cages.”