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Mana was called into action while off duty on a road trip late
on Sunday, successfully reviving a baby elephant struck by a
motorcycle while crossing a road with a group of wild pachyderms
in the eastern province of Chanthaburi.
In a video that went viral on social media in Thailand on
Monday, Mana is seen giving two-handed compressions to a small
elephant lying on its side as colleagues a few metres away treat
a dazed and injured motorcycle rider on the floor.
Both the rider and elephant were recovering and neither had
serious injuries.
"It's my instinct to save lives, but I was worried the whole
time because I can hear the mother and other elephants calling
for the baby," Mana told Reuters by phone.
"I assumed where an elephant heart would be located based on
human theory and a video clip I saw online," he said.
"When the baby elephant starting to move, I almost cried."
The elephant stood up after about 10 minutes and was taken to
another location for treatment, before being returned to the
scene of the accident in the hope of being reunited with its
mother.
The elephants soon returned when the mother heard her baby
calling out, Mana said.
Despite having dealt with dozens of road traffic accidents
involving humans, Mana said the elephant was the only victim he
had managed to revive while performing Cardiopulmonary
resuscitation (CPR).
(Reporting by Jiraporn Kuhakan; Writing by Martin Petty, editing
by Ed Osmond)
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