Only six days old and abandoned, the frail baby elephant lay barely breathing—until kind souls arrived to rewrite his fate.

Rescuers hold umbrellas to shade the sick baby elephant from the sun in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China’s Yunnan Province, Aug. 29, 2021. A newborn baby elephant in Xishuangbanna was abandoned by its herd only six days after its birth due to severe diseases including suppuration of umbilical cord.Photo: Xinhua