Milk feeding time, Elephant Orphanage, Udawalawe, Sri Lanka.

The entry from the Udawalawe National Park.

The feeding of milk.

Leaving after a milk feed.

Videos taken by me a few years ago:-

1. http://youtu.be/GM31sVP8NMA - 'I want some more milk'

2. http://youtu.be/xtNwPei39xY - Jumping the fence to get more milk.

3. http://youtu.be/tz8rcmpjnvI - The orderly entry, feeding and exit.

Video taken by me on June 2014:-

http://youtu.be/U8hIlqwgMns

Elephant in front of Dehena Ella - waterfall.

An elephant with its 'Mahout' on the way to work passing the Dehena Ella. This is on the Rathnapura - Wewalwaththe road. Please watch the following video of the waterfall posted by me on Youtube. Click on the following web-address:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW4CgR7bFBc

Wild elephant struck by train, Manampity, Sri Lanka.

 Coming back from Batticaloa we saw the carcass of this dead elephant. It had been struck by a train while crossing the railway track at Manampitiya on the Polonnoruwa to Batticaloa stretch. 'The count conducted last month in forests and wildlife parks found 5,879 wild elephants, of which 122 are tuskers and 1,107 calves'.

A bath for a baby elephant - Ridivihare, Sri Lanka

I took this sequence of a baby elephant being bathed at Ridivihare, Sri Lanka. Note the broken tusk.
Click on link below to watch the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb7aQnAap98

A domesticated elephant being transported, Thalduwa, Sri Lanka.

A few decades ago, domesticated elephants in Sri Lanka had to walk long distances for work or to take part in Peraharas. Nowadays they are transported on flat-bed trucks. The elephant keeper is in danger of getting a shower of urine anytime during transport.  Photo taken with a Sony Cybershot 8.1MP by Gnanamoli Veerasingam.

Elephant orphanage, Pinnawala, Sri Lanka.

The total wild elephant population is estimated at roughly 2500 and is going down. Elephant orphanages give succor to abandoned young elephants or those affected by disease or injury. The elephant orphanage at Pinnawala is a big tourist attraction. Here you see the elephants taking a bath in the adjoining river, at Pinnawala during the early afternoon hours..