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Orphaned, baby elephant
On Friday in the late afternoon, our night guard (Ephraim) was woken up by a banging on the door and a screeching. The door then was pushed open and in walked a tiny baby elephant, only a couple of weeks old, dehydrated, thin and very distressed. We managed to get him up to our camp and into a stable. With advice from Richard Moller and Vanessa, we rehydrated him for about 48 hours until we were able to get the SMA Gold milk powder which is the best formula milk for orphaned baby elephants. We do not know what happened to his mother. A few days earlier, a herd of elephant cows and calves had passed close to the camp, but even on a flying recce afterwards, we could not see them. Friends in Dar and Arusha (Tina Sutton and Sara Ashby) managed to source the SMA Gold milk powder and he is now drinking this and is looking in better shape. He is calm and hydrated and is constantly with Ombeni (our carpenter) who is his companion. We are keeping our fingers crossed and hoping for the best and doing our best, although we simply don't know how this will go