The incredible effort to rescue a young elephant from a 25-foot-deep well is seen in this video. In Jharkhand, India’s most eastern state, the calf accidently fell into the waterhole, but humans were able to save it.

They used a JCB digger to carve a ramp out of the well’s ridge as they pumped tons of water for two hours to float the elephant to the top. The beast ultimately clambered out onto the land before meandering off to rejoin its herd, to the noisy whooping of the bewildered onlookers.

The big gray thing was rolling around in the shallow water at the bottom of the well. The 25-foot-deep well’s bottom was where the elephant appeared distressed. Locals jumped into action, grabbed a hose, and slowly and painfully sprayed water into the enormous farm well.

Local sources claim that the well had apparently been replenished two hours later. The elephant eventually popped its head out of the water. The slope next to the well was being built by a JCB excavator for the elephant to use. The calf struggled to get its front foot to grip the muddy ground, but it eventually managed to lift itself and crawl up onto the land.

At this moment, a sizable crowd had assembled to see and cheer the animal’s liberation. The infuriated calf dragged itself to safety as they fled, but they pursued it as it lumbered off to join its herd. The ecstatic audience applauded enthusiastically as it followed three other elephants as they staggered down a sandy road.