Baby elephant Khanyisa reaches 415 kgs and plays with her new friend - the mop!

Khanyisa managed to break her scale so this milestone crept up on us now that the scale is fixed! She is officially 415,5 kg this week!

To celebrate her big milestone Khanyisa was full of playfulness out in her garden. After gulping down her milk bottles 🍼, this 415 kilogram elephant discovers the nursery mop that Willinton is using to clean the orphanage and takes it for a spin!

Enjoy some closeups of her growing tusks and pink tongue as she slurps her bottle and her joyful garden morning as the herd come to visit before they all start their day together. Tokwe, Limpopo, Pisa and Timisa all stand close by, curiously smelling their neighbour.

We will share more scenes of the herd soon but today we have two special celebrations! It has taken a lot of tenacity, dedication and thinking out of the box (or at least more like an elephant) to get Khanyisa to this point!

And we could not have done it without your support — helping us to provide her with her milk formula, vegetables and vegetation, around-the-clock care and medical needs, and of course her elephant herd who have helped Khanyisa integrate into a family and a wilder life once again.

Khanyisa will need milk for at least another two years before she is weaned. Milk is the greatest expense when it comes to her care.

You can donate to her milk feeds or other needs through our GlobalGiving campaign: https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/raising-khanyisa-snaring-survivor/

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