Baby Elephants Bottle-Fed Milk in Sri Lanka Orphanage

Get notified of my videos on Twitter @videosbloke. The Pinnawala (Pinnawela) Elephant Orphanage in Sri Lanka takes care of baby elephants as well as adults. (Some of these youngsters have been found abandoned in the wild, while others have been born of adult elephants living in the sanctuary. They are taken care of, fed and trained by the Sri Lankan wildlife authorities. The orphanage was primarily designed to afford care and protection to baby elephants found in the jungle without their mothers. In most of these cases the mother had either been either killed or died, such as by falling into a pit. There are also instances of adult elephants being killed by farmers to protect their crops, leaving the babies orphaned. The elephants are not subjected to any form of stress or threat and are supported by a staff of more than a hundred. With the elephant population having been decimated by hunting during the British colonial period, Pinnawala has sustained a successful captive breeding programme to repopulate the island with these noble beasts.

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