Baby elephant 'cries' for five hours after mother tried to stamp him to death shortly after birth!

Horrified zookeepers were forced to intervene after a female elephant attempted to stamp her calf to death shortly after he was born.
The female elephant had stepped on baby Zhuangzhuang almost immediately after giving birth at a Chinese zoo on August 30.
But vets initially thought it was an accident. They removed the calf to treat his injuries and returned him to his mother two hours later - but she started to stamp on him again.

Keepers drove her off and took the little elephant away.

Red-eyed: The baby cried for five hours after he was separated from his parent and is now being brought up by keepers

'The calf was very upset and he was crying for five hours before he could be consoled', a spokesman said.
'He couldn't bear to be parted from his mother and it was his mother who was trying to kill him.

'They have made a good bond. We don't know why the mother turned on her calf but we couldn't take a chance.'

Angry elephant: The calf's mother was chased away from her baby as she had tried to kill him