{UAH} Brave baby elephant risks life to protect dying mum as she was shot by poachers

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Baby elephant risks life to protect dying mother

For days, Zongoloni stood guard over her dying mother, chasing off anything that came too close.

Stroking her trunk along her injured mum's body – the victim of an ivory poacher's bullet – the 18-month-old elephant calf refused to leave her side, even as hunger and dehydration threatened her own life.

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Brave baby elephant risks life to protect dying mum as she was shot by poachers

Stroking her trunk along her injured mum's body – the victim of an ivory poacher's bullet – the 18-month-old elephant Zongoloni refused to leave her side

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