A Visit To An Elephant Orphanage

Friday, May 2, 2014 - 11:31 in Biology & Nature

Katie And The Baby Katie Linendoll Productions, LLC Oltaiyoni was found wandering all alone in the wild. Three-week-old Ashaka was stuck in a mud hole, desperate for help. Barsilinga was rescued at just two weeks old, when his mother was gravely wounded by poachers. I'm surrounded by these three orphans, and more, as they come in from a mud bath at their new home, the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (DSWT), an organization in Nairobi, Kenya that rescues and rehabilitates elephants. But it's not until baby Sokotei, wrapped in a blanket, his sleepy eyes gazing at me, lifts his warm little trunk to my face, sucking at my cheek like a tiny vacuum, that I start brainstorming ways to bring the orphan, who lost his mom to a mysterious illness, back to my New York apartment.http://ak.c.ooyala.com/A4MGZxbTrUO8mLMS2BM7fweEY7QO7E3A/3Gduepif0T1UGY8H... ...

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