The following is information on the Elephant Orphan named: YATTA  (foster now)

Latest Updates on YATTA:

• 1/27/2012 - Yatta's first born wild calf
• 11/11/2011 - Mulikas First wild Born Baby - Mwende (the Loved One)
• 5/16/2011 - Kandecha's Story
• 5/14/2011 - Moving Olare, Kandecha and Kibo to Ithumba
• 6/14/2010 - Moving Kilaguni, Chaimu and Sabachi
• 11/8/2009 - The move of Kenia and Shira to Voi, and Enesoit, Meibai and Naimina to Ithumba
• 9/19/2009 - The wild big boys of Ithumba
• 8/6/2009 - The rescue of Turkwel
• 10/29/2008 - The Feel Good Factor at Ithumba
• 8/27/2008 - The story of Rafiki
• 11/8/2007 - Kamboyo and Zurura move to DSWT's Ithumba Unit in Tsavo East
• 9/30/2006 - Moving Kora and Lualeni to the Ithumba Unit
• 7/15/2005 - The move to Ithumba in Tsavo National Park for Sunyei, Galana, Ndomot and Madiba
• 9/17/2004 - Napasha's Operation on his leg
• 6/18/2004 - Moving Taita, Olmalo, Selengai, Wendi, Tomboi and Napasha
• 5/27/2002 - Mweya and Sweet Sally leave the Nursery

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Most Recent Keeper's Diary Entry: (view all the latest entries for YATTA)

4/28/2013 - Shukuru led the Juniors out this morning. They enjoyed a quiet morning concentrating on browsing. In the evening Ex Orphan Sidai came first to the Stockades with Yatta’s baby Yetu who she escorted to the Stockade water trough for a drink, diligently taking care of the calf. Yatta came later for a drink along with Mulika and her baby Mwende, plus Buchuma, Taita, Kinna, Nasalot, Galana, Rapsu and Orok all of whom took water while Challa, Kora, Kamboyo, Kenze, Ithumbah, Lenana, Sunyei, Chyulu, Makena, Wendi, Zurura, Lualeni, Madiba, Tomboi, Loijuk. Meibai and Naserian decided instead to browse close by. Missing from the entire group was Napasha, who has now not been seen for 3 weeks.

The Two Latest Photos of YATTA: (view gallery of pictures for YATTA)

Yatta with Emily photo taken on 9/26/2001	Yatta and her keeper photo taken on 8/20/2001

ORPHAN PROFILE FOR: YATTA (foster now)

Zoom / Enlarge A female calf estimated to have been born towards the end of September 1999 and therefore 1 month old when rescued. This little female calf is a poaching victim, her mother found dead minus her tusks in the Tsavo/Athi triangle of Tsavo East National Park below the Yatta Plateau. The calf's bellowing was heard by a labour gang working nearby, who went to investigate and came upon her not far the her dead mother. They walked across the Mtito tributary, loaded her onto the back of an old Landrover and drove her across the crocodile infested Athi river to the nearest Airfield at Tsavo Tsafari Camp, from whence she was flown to Nairobi. For a long time Yatta was troubled by a strange condition that puzzled all the Vets – weakness, periodic stiff joints and sometimes complete collapse. After massive doses of colloidal silver, glands in her neck became inflamed, then subsided, and a huge hard abscess developed on the side of her face, which was unusually not tender to the touch. In time this softened and burst, after which the wound healed cleanly, and her problem vanished! Whilst in the Nursery she also suffered from a sluggish metabolism, as, indeed did Emily when young, so she was moved to Tsavo along with Kinna and Mukwaju in February 2001 following unseasonal rains in January. Since then she has thrived. Yatta is a confident and gentle character, whose best friend is Kinna.

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