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EleFact Friday: Conservation and World Wildlife Day

Today is World Wildlife Day – a day to celebrate all the world’s wild animals and plants and the contribution that they make to our lives and the health of the planet. Although we get to see and share the beauty of elephants at the sanctuary daily, we want to…...

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Bambi’s Grounded Presence

Over time we’ve witnessed Bambi becoming more settled into daily life in general, finding a comfortable pace and a secure spot within the herd. She seems to be becoming softer and looking at us more during treatments, as if to really see us, perhaps to a depth that only elephants…...

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Rana Joins Lady in the Male Habitat

As we mentioned earlier, when we gave Lady access to the male Asian habitat, we also decided to open up Yard 5 for the other girls, in case they wanted to explore a new space. At first only Guille and Maia took advantage of it, but Rana has also spent…...

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Lady Has an Elephant Visitor

Last week, before Lady began spending time in the male Asian habitat, Kat was taking her some extra snacks in Yard 3 at the end of the night. While Kat was standing there, she heard another elephant close – just on the other side of the fence. So she gave…...

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Identifying the Elephants: Learning About Rana

For this week’s final entry of the series on how to identify each elephant, we’re going to talk about Rana, the lovely elephant with beautiful smooth skin and small, dark brown eyes. ...

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Sunday Smile: An Encouraging Slice of Watermelon

This week, we opened up the Asian male habitat to Lady so that she could explore and enjoy the luscious grass and trees growing throughout. Because it was a new place for her, we encouraged her to move into the fresh, green space with a slice of everyone’s favorite: watermelon.…...

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