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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWatch the Heartwarming Rescue of a Baby Elephant Separated From Its Mom
Story and video: http://www.takepart.com/video/2014/08/09/watch-heartwarming-rescue-baby-elephant-separated-his-mom
The newborn mistakenly followed a herd of cows.
August 09, 2014 By Kristina Bravo
Kristina Bravo is Assistant Editor at TakePart.
The baby pachyderm was only a few hours old when tribesmen in the Ndoto Mountains of Kenya found it with their cows. According to The Dodo, the herders realized that the infantwhich still had its umbilical cord attachedgot lost when a group of elephants got mixed up with the livestock. Instead of following its mother, the tiny elephant started trailing the cows.
One of the tribesmen made a 24-hour trek on foot to alert a local conservation group. The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, which runs a rehabilitation program for orphaned elephants, then airlifted the baby to its nursery in Nairobi. The rescuers are nursing the elephant, now named Ndotto, back to health.
Ndotto is just one of many baby pachyderms orphaned in Africaand most experience more heartbreaking separations from their mothers. Because poachers target the ivory of large elephants, their young are left to die (a calf can only survive without milk for a few days). So far the DSWT has raised more than 150 elephants with the goal of releasing them to the wild.
Ndotto seems to be in good hands. We cant do exactly what the mother can do, but we can do something close to that, Edwin Lusichi, a keeper at the DSWT, said in a 2008 interview with 60 Minutes. We have to teach them not to be naughty and not to push around with the others. To obey one another, just like you have to do with children, your own children, to respect the others.
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Watch the Heartwarming Rescue of a Baby Elephant Separated From Its Mom (Original Post)
Omaha Steve
Sep 2014
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CanSocDem
(3,286 posts)1. I was already to have my 'heart warmed'...
...but this video appears to be a shameless request for funds.
Not that that is wrong...
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Omaha Steve
(99,646 posts)2. I understand
Just like my email. I'm getting close to 100 emails a day from somebody running for office that wants me to sign a petition. Then after that it asks for $ etc...
Once you get on the list, it never stops.
OS