Two up, one down! ๐
2 juvenile Blue Tits (top) just after being fed by their hard working parent (bottom) in my Somerset garden yesterday. ๐
Have you started seeing baby birds in your garden? ๐๐ฆ
Trunk hugs and snuggles. A finger to suckle on. A mattress pulled outside to sleep under the stars when calves are restless. These are just the little ways our Keepers help settle newly rescued orphaned elephants.
Importantly though, it's a shared job among our caregivers, who sleep inside the stables with the youngest calves on a raised platform within reach of her trunk. A different Keeper rotates each night, so no single attachment forms with an orphan, ensuring when Keepers go home to visit their human families, the orphans' have a continuity of care.
That being said, we can't entirely stop the Keepers having their own favourite babies. Who's yours?
Krรบperโs Nuthatch, last time I saw this species my battery died just as one showed and I left the spares in the car, so nice to get another go on a return visit albeit 2 years later. Lesvos
A gorilla showing its baby to people proves animals can sense human feelings and compare them with their own mental state. Kind interactions bring out the best.