Kindergarten for orphaned elephants

These elephants early remained without maternal care, but they lost trying to compensate people. The center's employees support the David Sheldrick elephants in Nairobi, Kenya, caring for African elephants, who were left without a mother.

18 photos via russian.china.org.cn

1. Employees of the center support the David Sheldrick elephants in Nairobi, Kenya, elephant Shukurov protect against rain and cold that's just such a makeshift cloak.





2. During a morning walk older elephants lie on the ground, inviting friends to play junior.



3. Elephant Vasin two weeks old.



4. Every three hours elephants are fed a special breast-milk substitutes, the composition of which was developed over the decades.



5. Daphne Sheldrick, the founder of the center support for the David Sheldrick elephants in Nairobi, Kenya, during an evening stroll. In 1987, Sheldrick was the first to come out of the remaining without a mother African elephant.



6. Elephants in Tsavo National Park at Mount Itumba.



7. Elephants at mud baths in the Tsavo National Park. Mud baths are extremely important to these animals because they help to protect them from overheating, and clear the skin from parasites.



8. Emily - an orphaned baby elephant, who now lives in a herd of 22, the same fellow sufferers. Poachers wounded by an arrow in its back foot, and elephant vets had needed assistance.



9. Who is Emily 17 years old and she is the head of his flock. The picture next to it - Joseph sauna, a veterinarian who removed the jammed her foot in the boom. Sauni says that elephants are often raised in captivity, but later released to freedom, returned to the person if they need help or to show their young.



10. This two-year elephant died shortly after being hit in the center of elephants support the David Sheldrick. Elephants are difficult to adapt to captivity, being away from family, said an employee of the center of Angela Sheldrick.



11. Employee Fund indicates how deep became poachers had hurled the spear head polutoragodovalaya elephant named Murka.



12. Elephant Vasin two weeks old, was very weak, he had to be constantly wrapped in a blanket, to avoid freezing. Soon the elephant died.



13. Elephant Mzima welcomes students visiting with a tour of Tsavo National Park. "For the old poacher," says Daphne Sheldrick, "the elephants is the only flesh and bones. But the world is changing, and a new generation will be good. "



14. Sleeping elephant in the center of support for the David Sheldrick elephants in Nairobi.



15. It is best to orphaned kids feel with their own kind, so they are not allowed to be alone.



16. Adult elephants guard Melibai baby while bathing.



17. elephant named Shukurov center staff had to be rescued after falling into a manhole pipe.



18. Orphans are linked to taking care of their people, and they too have for them tenderness. "We are here not only for wage labor," says one of the employees of the center. "The longer you hang out with elephants, the more you start to love them."



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