This is the heartwarming moment a mother elephant helped her calf to cross a roadside barrier, gently nudging it with its trunk, in front of a group of cyclists in India.

Video filmed by Anish Katta on Thursday (July 2) in southern Kerala state shows the baby elephant struggling for nearly a minute to get over the barrier that the mother elephant and another elephant, larger than the calf, has already climbed with ease.

"I am very lucky to see this sight, you never get to see such a sight everyday, it is rare," filmer Katta, from Mallapuram district in Kerala, told Newsflare.

The cyclists and truck drivers wait patiently until the calf is safely over the barrier.

The baby elephant is struggling with crossing the divider when the elephant mother come to help it baby.

The baby elephant and the mother and herd was trying to cross the road when the barrier came and then the big elephant cross the road easily and the also the concrete divider.

But the little elephant finds difficulty and then the mother sees its baby struggling to climb the concrete barrier when it then come to help him.

It gives a push to its child from the back and then finally the baby elephant can climb the divider successfully.

The people stopped their lorry and trucks to watch this rare scene.

Even cyclist Anish Katta who was present there took the video on his mobile phone.

The video shot by Anish Katta in Thepara, Kerala southern India says that 'I am very lucky to see this sight, you never get to see such sight everyday and is rare.'