This is the adorable moment a young elephant stopped to wait for his struggling friend who'd been left behind by the herd.

In the Newsflare archive clip, which was captured in Kruger National Park in South Africa in December 2017, a young elephant struggles to make it up a steep bank and is left behind by the herd.

Another young elephant notices what his happening, stops and then turns back to help his friend.

As he gets to the bank, the struggling elephant makes it to the top and the two friends appear to have a sort of embrace before running to catch up with the rest of the herd.

"How cute is that?" remarks one amazed onlooker.

Elephants are well documented to be highly social animals, which appear to have self-awareness and often show empathy for individuals of their kind.

Kruger National park, South Africa,
This video is regarding a heartfelt moment between 2 young Elephants.

As the herd was crossing the road, the one young elephant struggled(way at the back of the herd) to get up an embankment. His mate, who just got up the embankment, saw this and waited for his mate at first. As he approached the struggling mate to help him up, the mate managed to get up and on the road himself. Amazing how close relationships Elephants have :)

"It was a very large herd, I have no idea how many elephants had already crossed the road before we saw them. I didn't start videoing straight away as I was driving and very slowly, approaching them to a safe distance, I then took a few photo's before switching to video. We were on the S3 road between Paul Kruger Gate and Numbi Gate, (before the road junction for Numbi/Phabeni gates). I just wish I had got both of the young elephants together sooner, did you see how the second one curled up his trunk then shook his head as if to say "No, I'm not coming" or "No, I don't need your help" - video owner/taker.

You need to watch and listen to the first part of the video to appreciate the last part :)