Baby elephants live under the watchful eye of their mothers until they are fully grown. Mother elephants are incredibly protective, especially when their young are still small and vulnerable. Watch the video above,

Indonesian authorities rescued a critically endangered baby Sumatran elephant after it became separated from its mother at a palm oil plantation, a local official said on Tuesday. The two-month-old male calf was found at an oil palm plantation in Riau province on the western island of Sumatra on Monday after residents alerted authorities,

The two-month-old Sumatran elephant calf was discovered at a plantation in Riau province on the western island of Sumatra.

This baby elephant can’t stop crying. He had been born a few weeks ago; however, overnight his mother started rejecting him, to the extent of putting his life on the line. “He cried for five long hours when he realized.