Didn’t Know What To Do
While humans are generally smarter than animals, at this point, not one soul knew what to do. For a while, they were also just staring at the herd, trying to make sense of what was going on. They looked around and spotted a distressed baby in the hole. Humans were a lot smaller than the elephants, but they were also not physically capable of getting the weak baby out of the pit on their own.
Since they could not possibly get the baby out with their bare hands, they called for more help. Surely the authorities would have the right equipment to rescue the calf from being trapped.