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Joy for Orphan Elephants

4 The Love Of Animals

A mobile vet unit was able to tranquilize her, clean her wounds, and extract the spear. Orphan infant elephants are a challenge to raise because they remain fully dependent on their mother’s milk for the first two years of life and partially so until the age of four.

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Hornbills of Sabah

10,000 Birds

In fact, a recent article in the Economist on Singapore’s rewilding states “The oriental pied hornbill (pictured), with its extraordinary ivory casque, had been locally extinct for a century. Now pairs of hornbills feed outside this correspondent’s window”. Of course, their own mother is not the only threat to Wreathed Hornbill individuals.