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You might need the tissues for this one.

A video has emerged showing the heart-warming moment a baby elephant was reunited with her mother after a harrowing three and a half years apart.

The mum and daughter are clearly overjoyed and are seen to be 'talking' non-stop, making expressive noises and flapping their ears excitedly.

The young calf, Me-Bai was taken away from her mother Mae Yui in Thailand and forced into a life of exploitation and captivity.

The youngster was subjected to a 'training crush', a ritual where elephants are shackled and beaten until their spirit is broken and they are completely submisive.

After her captors had crushed her, they sold her off to an organization that gives paying customers a ride as part of Thailand's controversial elephant tourism industry.

But Me-Bai was so depressed at being separated from her mother that she stopped eating normally and became so thin that she was no longer of any use.

Thankfully she was given to the Elephant Nature Park sanctuary for early retirement.

There, they managed to track down her mother at another tourist camp and convince the owners to allow a visit.

Amazingly, the moment even moved mum Mae Yui's captors and they agreed to release her to the sanctuary to be with her daughter.

The Elephant Nature Park hopes to one be able to release both of them back into the wild.