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Energy for your day, sound on! #trunkupwines ・・・ From @dswt - (Hint: Watch this one until the end. You won’t regret it!) Three-month-old Nusu already has the bravado of a full-grown bull — as a rather surprised group discovered yesterday when the half-pint-sized baby decided to show them who was boss! • This scene is only a reality through our Orphans' Project. We rescued Nusu's mother, Nasalot, as an orphan when she herself was just three months old. Today, she’s living wild with her firecracker of a son (her first calf) by her side — except, of course, when he’s off chasing other elephants! • www.thedswt.org/donate • • • Video © David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust #DSWT #Nasalot #NasalotDSWT #Nusu #NusuDSWT #ithumba #ithumbareintegrationunit #whyilovekenya #kenya #africa #magicalkenya #savetheelephants #saynotopoaching #racingextinction #jointheherd #bekindtoelephants #worthmorealive -

Isn’t that sweet? To bring their babies back and show them off? Maybe they want a baby shower! #trunkupwines #wholefoodsdublin ・・・ Half-pint-sized Nusu is the picture of perfection. Soon after giving birth, first-time mum Nasalot brought her new baby to our Ithumba stockades and introduced him to the Keepers there. These men have seen Nasalot, an orphaned elephant, grow up before their eyes and helped her transition to a life in the wild — and now that things have come full circle, they look forward to watching Nasalot raise her own elephant family in the wild! • • • Photo © David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust #DSWT #Nasalot #NasalotDSWT #Nusu #NusuDSWT #ithumba #ithumbareintegrationunit #whyilovekenya #kenya #africa #magicalkenya #savetheelephants #saynotopoaching #racingextinction #jointheherd #DSWTat40 #worthmorealive #antipoaching

NEW born baby bull elephant! #trunkupwines ・・・ Ithumba is celebrating another baby shower this weekend — Nasalot has given birth to a beautiful little bull! As many of the wild-living orphans are wont to do, Nasalot promptly brought her newborn to our Ithumba stockades to meet her human-elephant family there. Everyone is very smitten with baby Nusu – whose name means “half” in Swahili, a nod to his half-pint size – and is equally thrilled to see the first-time mum doing so well. Nasalot was orphaned 17 years ago, when ivory poachers killed her mother. We rescued the three-month-old calf, raised her at the DSWT, and when she was ready, helped her transition back to a life in the wild. Her baby makes us “grandparents” 27 times over (and then some; we can’t put a number on the wild-born babies who have been fathered by male orphans that we have raised). Over the past 40 years, we have successfully rescued and raised over 200 orphaned elephants. By helping them return to a life in the wild, we also help Kenya’s elephant populations grow and thrive. Thank you to everyone who has played a part in that mission — and celebrate today, as you too have become grandparents once more! • • • Photo © David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust #DSWT #Nasalot #NasalotDSWT #Nusu #NusuDSWT #ithumba #ithumbareintegrationunit #whyilovekenya #kenya #africa #magicalkenya #savetheelephants #saynotopoaching #racingextinction #jointheherd #DSWTat40 #worthmorealive #antipoaching