The various animals are explained by the artist. The little brown boars are clear enough; the large white elephant represents the local governor and the Chiang Rai province; the frogs are for the divers, the white seals for the Navy Seal crews.

Foreign countries who have contributed expertise and manpower are featured heavily, with the lion for crew from England, the crane for Japan, the panda for China, the moose for Sweden, the tiger for Myanmar, the brown elephant for Laos, and the little brown kangaroo on the bottom right is for the Australian helpers.

The dragon is to represent the teams pumping millions upon millions of litres of water from the cave to lower flood levels. Even tech billionaire Elon Musk, who pledged workers to the effort and has been testing a mini submarine to help, has been depicted as the Iron Man mask.

The world's media has been represented as birds.

"A cute cartoon artist has a meaning to reflect on "take the boar home" this time that is a very interesting world-class operation," said the Thai Navy Seal page on Facebook, which has been a leading source of information about the rescue efforts.

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