Pink Baby Elephant Khanyisa is Surrounded by Milk Bottles & A Lion Tale by Tigere!

Khanyisa is certainly doing better and is foraging more and more! Unfortunately the bush is very dry, with it being winter, and so we have to ensure that she gets all the nutrition in that her body needs. This means two milk bottles two or three hours a day, full of energy and nutrients, while ensuring the right balance to prevent diarrhea.

Carers Joshua and Israel, and Elephant Manager Tigere, and Adine all add a helping hand to get Khanyisa to finish her bottles, one after the other. We also join Tigere for a chat about his recent run-in with lions while walking with Mambo out in the reserve! Listen to the story in today's video! We also join up with Klaserie, Timisa, Tokwe and Kumbura, the amazing allomother!

The days get hot in the afternoons, and the elephants find relief in their dam swims and standing in the shade in the heat of midday. These wanderers of the African plains and forests prefer a diet of lush green grasses with occasional fruity snacks that are available during the warm wet season, however for much of the year less nutritious stems, roots and bark are consumed. In other words they graze during the wet season and browse during the dry season when up to 94% of their diet consists of indigestible and difficult to swallow material.

Fortunately, their giant molars are perfect for grinding the bark and stems into a more manageable, and ultimately, a more swallowable state. These wanderers of the African plains and forests prefer a diet of lush green grasses with occasional fruity snacks that are available during the warm wet season, however for much of the year less nutritious stems, roots and bark are consumed. In other words they graze during the wet season and browse during the dry season when up to 94% of their diet consists of indigestible and difficult to swallow material.

Fortunately, their giant molars are perfect for grinding the bark and stems into a more manageable, and ultimately, a more swallowable state. Unlike giraffes, who use their prehensile blue tongues to grasp delicious leaves from far out of reach places, African elephants cannot stick their tongues out at you because the underside is connected to the floor of the mouth.

The elephant tongue, which can weigh up to 12 kilograms, aids in moving food to the back of the throat where, mixed with saliva, it is easily slid down the mucous-lined oesophagus into a simple one chamber stomach.

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