Elephants are very communicative animals. They exhibit love, compassion, rage, sadness, and joy. The strongest feeling of all is a mother's love for her calf. The state environment and forest secretary, Supriya Sahu IAS, shared a photo of the rescued elephant calf napping with its mother within Anamalai Tiger Reserve near Valparai in Tamil Nadu, a few days after the animal was reunited with its mother. The image was captured by field workers keeping an eye on the freshly reunited calf.

When an image speaks a thousand words, this one of a rescued young elephant cuddling up in her mother's arms for a midday sleep before rejoining the larger herd is very touching. The image has received a lot of positive feedback on social media and gone viral. Some Internet users thought the video was adorable, while others praised the foresters for trying to reunite a youngster with its mother.

The mother shields her calf from harm by carrying it over barriers, saving it from accidents, and using her own body to defend it from the sun. She gives it a wash with her trunk, scrubbing it clean and misting it with water. The mother is the calf's tutor as well as its protector and nurturer. She will teach it how to avoid its lone predator, humans, and where to obtain water. For a tiny elephant, who will only taste solid food in its mother's mouth for the first six years of its existence and survive on her milk alone, there is a lot to learn. Additionally, an elephant mother's milk undergoes four alterations to guarantee her infant receives the precise nutrients it needs. It's well known that elephant mothers are among the greatest mothers on the planet! With what we currently know about elephants, it is obvious that even their most basic requirements cannot be supplied in captivity! Zoos cannot and do not keep elephants in their natural social groupings. One of their most valuable instincts is family instinct. Because of the many unpredictable factors in their environment, they are frequently apart. 

 “I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant’s faithful one-hundred percent!” – Dr. Seuss