A video has emerged showing the heartwarming moment a baby elephant was reunited with her mother after a harrowing three and a half years apart. The young calf had been taken away from her mother and subjected to a ‘training crush,’ a ritual where elephants are shackled and beaten until their spirit is broken and they are completely submissive. She was then forced to give rides to paying customers as part of Thailand’s controversial elephant tourism industry.
Link: Mirror