Orphaned baby elephants take a mud bath at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Elephant Orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya. The elephant orphanage looks after 29 baby elephants orphaned by human-wildlife conflicts and poaching, among other causes. (Dai Kurokawa, wsj.com, April 10, 2018)
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I love how the females take care of all the babies, theirs and the others’
And, does that baby not look happy?
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So agree!
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🙂
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TLC and mud baths….sounds like the perfect remedy.
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Sure does.
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Awwwww baby!
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Oh a elephant orphanage! So beautiful 👏💕
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Isn’t it though!
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Shame we even need one…
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But we do so its good!
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True!
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http://www.oprah.com/entertainment/maria-shriver-interviews-poet-mary-oliver
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No. I haven’t Karen. Thank you!
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i love that they step in to care for these orphan babies, giving them the care and comfort they need. ah, that mud bath….
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Yes. So love Mamma’s trunk over babies back.
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A baby pachyderm in a puddle…does it get any cuter?!
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That is a great place. They take care of babies who’ve lost their mother…mostly thanks to humans.
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So glad to see some humans do so much good. Thanks Helen.
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feel like I’m ready to become an elephant…
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No kidding. Right now, I’m all in!
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Reblogged this on It Is What It Is and commented:
Baby elephants … cuteness overload!!
‘David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Elephant Orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya.’
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I can’t. Elephants are my kin. Their distress hurts me so. To see the babies comforting each other… ahh well.
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Me too Sandy. Elephants and Cows. Hits to the Bone.
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