Former Sheldrick orphan, Makena, shows off new baby to her former keepers 😍

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"Early morning, on 10th September 2021, wild-living orphan Makena arrived at the Ithumba Stockades with a newborn bundle of joy by her side. This is the moment we met her calf, since named Mumo by her Keepers."

[Karadeniz]

1. I guess the stockades are where she was raised. Elephants don't forget!!!!!!

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3. Yes. She started out at the nursery in 2005 then graduated to Ithumba

where she lived for a few years then she joined the wild herd when she was old enough.

Here is her story:

https://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/orphans/makena

[Karadeniz]

6. Have you heard about Lawrence Anthony and his wild elephants after his death? After the service,

they approached the compound, single file, and swayed for a few hours. That was 3/4/12, 5 pm. On 3/4/13, 5 pm they made a second appearance. They returned 3/4/14 and 3/4/15 according to an account written by his wife in 2016, so I don't know if they continued. The precision of their return is amazing... and I think I read it took them about 12 hours to get to the home. Anthony wrote a book about his experiences with them and creating a sanctuary. Then he went to Bagdad to pick up the pieces of the zoo following our military actions. Another book. Then to north Africa to help rhinos. Another book.

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9. I read his books and the elephant's tribute to him still gives me chills. How did they know?

There's so much more to animals than we will ever understand, It reminds me of one of my favorite passages from "The Outermost House" by Henry Beston:


“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate for having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein do we err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings: they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.”

[Karadeniz]

10. So true!

[secondwind]

2. I enjoyed this.. thank you

[abqtommy]

4. Thanks, I do love the elephants!

[Bayard]

5. What a terrific family!

[Duppers]

8. 💕 Beautiful family.

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11. K&R