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Nature And Wildlife Tv | Orphaned Baby Elephants Became Best Friends After Being Rescued

Orphaned baby elephants became best friends after being rescued

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Two orphaned baby elephants have become best friends after being rescued by a wildlife foundation.

Ashaka and Kamok were discovered in the wild after being ab.and.oned by their mother a year ago.

The African elephants – both named after parts of Kenya – were adopted by the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust on the outskirts of Nairobi, and have since been inseparable.

Now, the rowdy duo spends their days rolling around in the mud, chasing warthogs and smothering bushes.

Nature And Wildlife Tv | Orphaned Baby Elephants Became Best Friends After Being Rescued
Ashaka (left) and Kamok (right) were rescued by rangers and taken to the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Nairobi National Park in Kenya a year ago
Nature And Wildlife Tv | Orphaned Baby Elephants Became Best Friends After Being Rescued
The animals have developed a close friendship after being integrated into the herd of orphaned elephants also rescued in the wild by rangers

Kamok was only a day old when she was aba.ndo.ned by her mother and herds of livestock. Her limbs were weak, and she couldn’t walk.

She wandered alone and fearfully into a camp in the Ol Pejeta reserve, where rangers began bottle-feeding her.

Nature And Wildlife Tv | Orphaned Baby Elephants Became Best Friends After Being Rescued
The elephants are endangered in Nairobi among other parts of Africa with illegal poaching and threats to their natural habitat bringing the species ever closer to extinction
Nature And Wildlife Tv | Orphaned Baby Elephants Became Best Friends After Being Rescued
When orphaned animals are taken in by rangers or conservationists they form fast attachments with other creatures after losing their herds
Nature And Wildlife Tv | Orphaned Baby Elephants Became Best Friends After Being Rescued
The baby elephant roll around in the mud to cool down as visitors at the Nairobi National Park watch on. Ashaka and Kamok are part of the Trust’s fostering programme
Nature And Wildlife Tv | Orphaned Baby Elephants Became Best Friends After Being Rescued
One of the young animals gets a mud bath from a ranger who uses a heavy shovel to coat their dried skin with damp, wet mud as temperatures soar
Nature And Wildlife Tv | Orphaned Baby Elephants Became Best Friends After Being Rescued
Two of the elephants struggle to get back on their feet after enjoying a splash around in the pool of red mud with the rest of the orphaned animals
Nature And Wildlife Tv | Orphaned Baby Elephants Became Best Friends After Being Rescued
Rangers use a special formula of milk to feed the elephants when they are babies. Eventually, they will be released back into the wild to integrate with herds

Two months later, three-week-old Ashaka was found at the bottom of a deep waterhole after waking Kenya Wildlife Service rangers in Tsavo East with her distressed scream.

‘These bonds will last a lifetime.

“Kamok and Ashaka were rescued within a few months, and since they were both girls in the original group of infants, they settled into daycare knowing they had a playmate and a friend of each other.”

David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust cares for endangered elephants and black
rhinoceros. It is also taking care of a baby giraffe named Zili.

Founded in 1977 by Dame Daphne Sheldrick D.B.E in memory of her late husband, it focuses on rescuing and rehabilitating orphaned elephants.

The Trust has cared for more than 150 elephants for nearly 40 years, re-entering animals back into the wild when they are ready.

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