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

Latest Updates on NDARA:

• 3/10/2010 - The return of Burra
• 4/26/2008 - Update on the Voi Unit Orphans
• 5/6/2007 - Female Orphans and their Suitors

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

4/27/2013 - Emily’s Ex Orphan group arrived at the Stockades in the early hours of the morning, in order to be there for the morning Supplement hand-out. When the Juniors noticed that the Ex Orphans were there to monopolize the handout, they left knowing that there would be a lot of competition. Icholta then left the Ex Orphan group to escort the Juniors to the slopes of Mazinga hill behind Emily’s old enclosure. Shimba limped out past some of the Ex Orphans as they were feeding. Instantly Laikipia, Ndara and Mweya watched him walk past and knew that he had problems. Mweya immediately ran to where Icholta and the babies were browsing, rumbled to Icholta, who immediately began to return, leaving Mweya in charge of the Youngsters. Also interested in Shimba’s condition, Edie and Icholta followed him, joined by Laikipia and the other Ex Orphans, all obviously anxious about Shimba’s wounds. Meanwhile Edie’s baby, Ella, happily enjoyed playing with Seraa, who loves the baby very much and is a very competent Nannie, so much so that Edie often doesn’t seem to even bother about where her baby is, confident that she is in good care.

Ndara is now doing very well having recovered from her arrow wounds and has put on condition. Lesanju and the Juniors returned to the Stockades, escorted back by Sweet Sally. Taveta spotted Emily’s calf, Eve standing between Sally and a rock and squeezed through the gap to give little Eve a hard shove from the back. This sent Eve running off down the hill, Taveta after her bent on mimic mounting, but Sweet Sally followed both at speed, and put herself between the two when the caught up with them. Meanwhile, Emily seemed unconcerned, concentrating on trying to show Mzima how to take on a bigger opponent. Tsavo then turned up only to find the Copra handout gone. The Ex Orphans then departed, and after taking his morning milk at 8 a.m., Shimba joined his little friend Panda, while the others went about their day as usual.

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Ndara sitting in the water at mudbath photo taken on 5/20/2005	Ndara in Tsavo photo taken on 5/4/2003

ORPHAN PROFILE FOR: NDARA (foster now)

Zoom / Enlarge On Tuesday 25th September 2001 at 9.25 AM a message was relayed through KWS that an elephant calf had fallen into an open water pipeline manhole near Maungu town, about 30 km South East of Tsavo East Park headquarters. A team of keepers led by Dr. Samuel Kasiki immediately left for rescue of this calf and on arrival at the scene we found a group of villagers gathered around the hole and trying to comfort the helpless baby. We learned from the residents that the calf fell into the hole the previous night when a herd of elephants had visited the area for a drink. Attempts by the mother, and perhaps other relatives, to get it out must have been futile and the group left at the break of day. No elephants were seen any where close to the scene at early morning. The hole into which the calve fell, a concrete structure measuring 5ft x 2½ft and 5½ft, is one of the many safety valves along the Mzima water pipeline usually filed with leaking water. These water points attract many elephant herds as well as other wildlife, especially during the dry season. When we arrived only the calf’s head was visible above the water and she was struggling to stay afloat and get out, bruising her forehead, back and rump in the process. A keeper got into the hole and passed a soft belt rope under its chest and hind quarters, and with the help of the villagers we pulled the calf out. She weighed about 400 kilos and it took about 45 minutes to get her out, after which we loaded her to the park of a Pick Up truck and immediately drove to the stockades for further first aid and treatment of the wounds. Other than the apparently superficial wounds on her body, the calf looked healthy and strong, and she has settled down well. She is a female aged about one and a half years. We already have another elephant rescued form the same hole on the 22nd of June 2001 called Maungu, and Ndara from day one struck up a very close friendship with Maungu, they probably came from the same herd, both meeting a similar fate. These two baby females are inseparable.

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