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Newborn saved by a trunk call

A SQUEALING newborn elephant is dramatically rescued — after his mother tried to CRUSH and DROWN him.

African elephant Pori, 26, gave birth to the 250lb baby at a zoo, but seconds later the three-ton mum appeared to stomp on him.

Then she rolled him through her enclosure like a beachball and pushed him underwater.

Keepers grabbed the half-drowned tot by the trunk and pulled him to safety.

But he was later REUNITED with his mum — who killed her first baby in 2005 by accidentally crushing him — after being given the all-clear by vets.

A spokesman for the zoo in Berlin, Germany, said Pori had been trying to stimulate the baby to stand up, adding: “She is a proud and loving mother now.”

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007230634,00.html