WATCH: Vets pull off dramatic rescue of mother elephant and her baby from deep pit, hailed as heroes

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A team of vets in Thailand have been hailed as heroes for saving a mother elephant and her one-year-old calf after they fell into a 7 feet deep pit.</p>
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According to a report in the Sun, a UK newspaper, the mother elephant had become unconscious and the vets managed to revive her with CPR.</p>
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The viral video shows the vets struggling to free the pair in the torrential rainy season. The distressed mother was also standing over her child to try and protect him.</p>
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Wildlife volunteers tranquilised the 10-year-old mother but she hit her head on the edge of the concrete structure – knocking her unconscious. Worried vets immediately revived the jumbo after she was pulled out of the pit with a crane, the Sun reported. </p>
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Dramatic footage shows three vets using their weight to pump the elephant’s chest to revive her. The baby elephant was rescued shortly after, with a crane digging out a path with an earth excavator. It took the team more than three hours to finish the complex operation.</p>