A Mammoth Task!

Vets take on a risky operation against the clock to save the life of an Asian elephant…

- Hannah Davies

When performing surgery on the world’s biggest land mammal, a simple scalpel just isn’t going to do.

Instead, cameras follow veterinary surgeon Gerhard Steenkamp as he attempts to remove an infected tusk from an Asian elephant using an electric saw, a giant chisel and a drill that’s normally used to break concrete!

Life or death