At the renowned David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Nairobi Nursery for Orphans, Edwin serves as head keeper and project manager. Edwin educates dignitaries, famous people, and visitors from all over the world who come to view the amazing animals he cares for through his work.
When baby elephants are abandoned and brought to the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, Edwin takes care of them. These calves arrive ғʀɪɢʜᴛᴇɴed after losing their mothers to poachers or natural disasters. Edwin begs the chagrined calves to “Heal. ғɪɢʜᴛ, please. Never give up.”
Elephant calves are born weighing between 170 and 250 pounds. Every three hours, they need to drink three gallons of milk, which they consume daily. To create a stable “family” atmosphere for the calves, Edwin arranges the schedules of 100 keepers so that they are available to the calves 24 hours a day.
They spend the day playing and taking care of them together, and at night they sleep in stables next to them. Give the orphaned elephants a sense of warmth rather than abandonment. Edwin never imagined that he would work as an elephant keeper.
To be able to feed the elephants in the middle of the night, they even sleep ᴄʟᴏsᴇ to them. “It feels the same to me as having my own infants in the same room,” a keeper said. Like human newborns, the young ones are also frequently awake and restless. When the weather turns chilly, the keepers make sure the infants are wrapped in blankets.
It seems like the keepers’ minds are programmed to awaken every three hours because many of them have been doing this for a while and know exactly when the babies need to be fed. Once fed, they will keep an eye on the infants until they nod out again. They occasionally snore. They trumpet, continue to snooze, and kick their legs while they’re dreaming.
source: dailylifeworld.com
