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Joy for Orphan Elephants

4 The Love Of Animals

Dedicated keepers at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust's Nairobi Elephant Nursery in Kenya protect baby Shukuru from the cold and rain, and the risk of pneumonia, with a custom-made raincoat. A mobile vet unit was able to tranquilize her, clean her wounds, and extract the spear.

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Kinabatangan – Borneo’s Mighty River

10,000 Birds

The two star attractions for most tourists are Asian Elephants and Bornean Orangutans. I dipped on the elephants, but the river certainly delivered for orangutans. Kinabatangan is therefore a popular place, both for tourists in general and for birders specifically. In fact I saw the first two, a female and baby, on the first day.

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Bradt travel guide to Sri Lanka by Philip Briggs – review

10,000 Birds

Yala National Park is brimming with wildlife and there are good chances of seeing Leopard , Sloth Bear and Asian Elephant , while it is also excellent for dry-zone birds, while the nearby Bundala coastal marshes and Palatupana ponds are good spots for shorebirds. What makes this guide different from many others?

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