daphne sheldrick, who lovingly devotes her life to saving pachyderms. dr. daphne sheldrick: elephants are very fragile in infancy, and infancy lasts 2 years. so you can never be sure that an elephant's going to survive until it's past its second birthday. but since we've managed to raise now 54 through them from the day they were born, i'm quite sure he has a very good chance. of those 54, the oldest are now sort of 18 years old. one of them's a young female, who's now 16, who's had 2 wild-born calves and brought them back to show the keepers, the human family. and our bulls that are now independent and with the wild herds, visit the orphans with both their human family and the other elephants. and in fact, the other day we had a wonderful story when 2 wild matriarchs abducted one of our youngsters from our group and took it off. and several days later, 2 of our big bulls, who are now independent and with the wild herds, came back escorting this little calf, handed it back to our matriarch and the keepers, turned around, and off they went again. so the matr

daphne sheldrick, who lovingly devotes her life to saving pachyderms. dr. daphne sheldrick: elephants are very fragile in infancy, and infancy lasts 2 years. so you can never be sure that an elephant's going to survive until it's past its second birthday. but since we've managed to raise now 54 through this little nursery, some of them from the day they were born, i'm quite sure he has a very good chance. of those 54, the oldest are now sort of 18 years old. one of now 16, who's had 2 wild-born calves and brought them back to show the keepers, the human family. and our bulls that are now independent and with the wild herds, visit the orphans regularly. they keep in touch with both their human family and the other elephants. and in fact, the other day we had a wonderful story when 2 wild matriarchs abducted one of our youngsters from our group and took it off. and several days are now independent and with the wild herds, came back escorting this little calf, handed it back to our matriarch and the keepers, turned around, and off they went again. so the matri

david sheldrick wildlife trust. this video was actually captured in october of last year, but they just released it online. they say she was undernourished but when they were called in, you can see all the people in the village overcome with love. they all wanted to see her off and watch as she was loaded up into this plane. >> that's got to be the most random feeling for a wild animal, get into a plane and fly. >> may have been odd, was completely relaxed. she was head butted, they took their hand away, hey, like your dog, hey, don't stop. >> although this video was captured a year ago, you can see her nowadays and even a year later they say she's still small for her age because as soon as they thought she was ready to be fostered, something would happen with her health and they'd have to keep her, but they believe with all the care she's given, eventually she will be able to be returned to the wild and become a mama herself. it's 2016, there's cameras all over the joint, duh. here they are rummaging around the hou