Elephant Diary

Bambi may have some vision in her left eye still. When elephants are blind in one eye, they tend to be hypersensitive to certain things and shift their entire body to adjust their gaze when you approach. We don’t observe Bambi doing these behaviors, which is why we suspect she…...

We recently mentioned how Bambi walks and moves more reminiscent of an African elephant than an Asian elephant. There’s another thing she does that reminds us of the African elephants we have worked with – and it’s the way she eats. When we go out to “drop hay” for the…...