he and 21 other young elephants have been given a temporary home by conservationist daphne sheldrick. >> raising an elephant you have to replace the family with a human family. >> reporter: 30 years ago she set up the world's only elephant orphanage in nairobi, kenya. that human family, the keepers, watch over their wards around the clock. >> they learn to love the keepers and recognize them for life. >> reporter: these orphans have lost their natural herds so the keeper teaches them to socialize, helps them teeth, and sleeps alongside them all night long. just like with human babies the day revolves around meal time. when super sized meals are served every three hours, about 25 quarts of milk per day per baby. and sometimes even that is not enough. daphne discovered that hanging blankets comfort the lonely babies. >> the trunk has to feel comfortable like it's against the body of a mother. and it has to be a special blanket too. not any blanket. they'll get fussy about the blanket, fussy about the bottle, fussy about the keeper. when they get big like this they learn to hold the bott

the baby elephant is loaded onto a plane and flown back to daphne sheldrick's orphanage outside nairobithe bush. dame daphne has been running the orphanage for over 30 years. she was born and raised in kenya, and married david sheldrick, africa's leading crusader against poaching. when he died in 1977, she founded the david sheldrick wildlife trust. daphne saw her mission as saving as many elephants as possible. but she has never permitted herself too much hope. that's because she loses half the elephants that arrive here, some from pneumonia, some from trauma. this elephant probably witnessed its mother's death and remembers everything. that's the double-edged sword of having the memory of an elephant--they never forget. >> you know, he's still grieving for his elephant family, he's in shock, he's distressed. >> do you believe a baby elephant can die of grief? >> oh, yes. i know he can. they're terribly, terribly fragile. you've got to try and turn their psyche round, duplicating what that elephant would have had in an elephant family, touching them, talking to him gently. >> in other

naturalist daphne sheldrick has spent 50 years living among elephants and fostering their orphans. >> in a perfect world elephants wouldn't have any enemies. humans are the enemies. >> reporter: united nations banned the ivory trade in 1989, but african countries can now sell their stockpiles to china and japan. >> in china it's looked upon as currency. it's like gold. >> reporter: daphne's group working with the kenyan national wildlife service is trying to curb the killing. they patrol the skies over the country's vast reserve, while mobile vet units sent to wounded and orphaned elephants. here they rescue a two week old infant left behind by poachers. they coax this one-year-old to safety, after he spent days refusing to leave his dying mother's side. >> raising them is tough. we've rescued over the years over 400 elephants. sadly not all successfully. >> reporter: daphne's daughter angela organizes supplies for a new rescue. experienced elephant handlers on board flying to the largest game reserve to retrieve the orphan, the 900 pound toddler, a handful to lift but comforted durin