This is the adorable clip of an elephant mother lending a trunk to her calf after it struggles to climb up a muddy bank.

The footage, filmed in Kruger National Park in South Africa on Monday (February 17), shows the elephants climbing out of the deep mud but the baby getting stuck and needing some help from his mother.

"The elephant mother quickly stepped closer and put her trunk around her youngster in order to help him getting stable again on his feet. [By] the end it looked like the elephant mother gave her son a comforting hug before he carried on again, looking all happy again," the filmer told Newsflare.