The elephant nursery has about 20 little elephants that have lost their mother in some way. Some the mother has died from old age and the little elephant got separated from his heard. Others have lost their mothers to other types of death. Some of these little guys just got separated from the heards by getting swept away by flooding. This organization has adopted these guys and will raise them and then release them as a heard into the wild in about 5 years. This little guy is the youngest of the heard.
This is the elephant version of "kill the man with the ball". Ok not really, but they do like to pill up on each other. It is a way of showing affection and also they get to play in the red dirt.
These little guys are so small they still need milk. They are feed from a bottle several times a day.
The elephant nursery is in the wild and we had a few visitors. This giraffe came by to say hi and to show us her young one. We did not get good pictures of the little giraffe.
Pumba showed up before the elephants came out to roll in the mud and water. It reminded me of the "Lion King" where Timone and Pumba are in the little hot tub in the movie.
-Mike
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"When I was a young wart hog!"
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