How To Adopt A Baby Elephant

00:02comm: in these heart-wrenching images, a baby elephant is seen mourning the death of hermother, who has been killed by poachers. 00:11comm: the herd had spirited the orphan away, but with no way of feeding the milk dependantcalf's life in now in danger. 00:21comm: just a day earlier these tourists photographs

How To Adopt A Baby Elephant, show ten month old roi playing with her mother. 00:30comm: but 24 hours later, kenya wildlife service officers find the mother dead, killed by apoisonous spear to the face. they remove the tusks to prevent them being poached. and apost mortem is performed.

00:45comm: the herd has taken the mourning elephant away to protect her, but with no access toher mother's milk she will not survive. 00:56comm: the david sheldrick wildlife trust is called to rescue her. 01:04comm: the team gather their equipment and fly from wilson airport in a chartered plane. 01:11comm: they meet richard roberts from the mara elephant project. 01:15richard: right now we've got a little calf

who's in this patch of forest behind me, thislittle calf's linked up with another baby who's the baby of the matriarch. we've beentrying to get her apart but haven't managed to as yet. 01:28comm: the team managed to manoeuvre the baby away from the herd. 01:33comm: to keep her calm on the journey they cover her eyes and give her a tranquilliser.she's also give a blanket and an iv drip. 01:42comm: roi is driven to the plane, loaded aboard then flown back to wilson airport.

01:49comm: once the david sheldrick team lands, they take the young elephant to the nurseryin nairobi national park to meet the rest of the orphan herd. 02:00comm: roi was traumatised from her loss, but was in good health as she had not long beenwithout her mother's milk. while she takes milk from the keepers she's initially wary.but roi soon fits in with the other orphans, the older ones giving her the affection sheneeds. as days pass roi becomes more comfortable and has regular feeds every three hours. 02:22comm: the process of caring for this you elephant

will take years though. generally orphansare only ready to be released into the wild at ten years old.