Indian builders use a ladder to save sloth bear stuck in a well

  • Labourers found the sloth bear at the bottom of a well in Maharashtra, west India
  • It had fallen into the pit, empty because of a heatwave, during the dead of night
  • Forest Department officials were called by workers who used a ladder to free it

Quick thinking builders rescued a sloth bear in distress which had become trapped at the bottom of a well emptied by an Indian heatwave.

The group stumbled across the poor animal one morning and decided it needed help.

After lowering a ladder into the 35-foot pit, the nimble bear was able to climb out of its scorched prison before racing for the undergrowth.

Footage taken by one of the labourers shows the cowed animal dash for cover after making its way up and out of the hole.

The group are sure stay a safe distance away.

Forest Department officials in Maharashtra, west India, were also called in after reports a wild sloth bear had tumbled into a dry well during a heatwave.

Despite plummeting 35 feet the bear was unharmed.

It was seen by locals desperately trying to climb the walls of the well – charging at them repeatedly.

Freedom! The sloth bear makes a run for it after being freed from its scorched prison 

The kind-hearted rescuers stumbled upon it and lowered the ladder down so the bear could clamber out.

Indian sloth bears have shaggy black coats and long muzzles. They feed on fruits, berries, grasses, flowers, honey, insect larvae and other insects.

Although they do not tend to be particularly aggressive creatures, the labourers keep their distance just in the case the distressed animal lashed out. 

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