Two-week-old elephant doesn't realise she's too big for a hug

She's only two-weeks old, but a baby elephant has shown she doesn't realise her considerable size, when she went in for a hug with her caretaker.

Video shows the two-week-old calf casually climbing into caretaker Allie's lap at a nature retreat, the Chai Lai Orchid, in the mountains of Chiang Mai in Thailand.

Allie was sitting cross-legged and talking when the elephant, who was standing in front of her, suddenly falls gently to its left side, folding its whole body into the lap of her surprised human companion.

"Awww, that’s the shot," a man filming says as Allie laughs and struggles to hug the affectionate animal back.