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Pulling

Attempting to assist an infant to get to its feet, up a bank, out of a well, or similar predicament; or to assist a helpless, injured, dying elephant by using the trunk and/or feet to pull towards it; using the trunk to pull an object toward it. Pulling a dead elephant or its bones is referred to Pull-Carcass.

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Little E is 15 days old. He Scrapes-Ground with his forefeet. He seems to want to lie down. He eventually does so, but ends up rolling down hill into a ditch ending up on his back. His mother immediately uses her trunk to Pull him up him to his feet and then touches his Trunk-to-Genitals. Lorato is hovering around to help and also touches him. This is after his mother slipped on the rocks and landed on him. "What a dangerous place!". (Maasai Mara, Kenya)

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