Elephant Orphans - The Secrets of Nature

This documentary follows the story of a family living in Botswana’s Okavango Delta. It’s known as the Abu family, and it consists of Elephants and people. The Elephants are all orphans from culling operations, some having landed up in Zoos and circuses around the world.

Randall Jay Moore is the inspiration behind it all, and he’s the man whose made it his life’s mission to bring the elephants back home to Africa. It is his dream that they once again return to life in the wilds. In the meanwhile though Randall trains the elephants to carry tourists through Botswana’s Okavango Delta. This way the elephants earn their keep, and are slowly reintroduced to their natural habitat.

The drama of the film shifts up a gear when Shireeni, a young cow in the captive herd, yields a newborn calf. It’s a first for the family – and signifies a step forward in their healing and rehabilitation. But Wanto, the little calf, has been born prematurely, and the family rallies round in a bid to save him. The team, which includes a specialist veterinarian, must pioneer techniques to save Wanto, as they have no precedent in their struggle to save a baby elephant.

Ultimately, the youngster is doomed – and the family must deal with the sorrow of a false dawn. But, like a gift from the elephant gods, the African bush yields a consolation for the family, in the form of a calf that has become separated from it’s wild herd. Grief turns to joy, as the family adopts Kitimetse into the fold.

As a final postscript we hear that Shireeni has once again given birth, but this time to a healthy baby Bull called Pula.

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