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

Sunset on the bund of the Udawalawe Reservoir, Udawalawe, Sri Lanka.

The hills of Uva beckon us.

The fresh breeze fanning our bodies you get lost in the beauty of a sunset.

Udawalawe, Sri Lanka.

The highway over the bund of the Udawalawe reservoir.

The hills of Uva seen across the Udawalawe reservoir.

The shrub jungle downstream.

A wild elephant on the other side of the electrified fence near the tank bund.

Feeding the orphan elephants at Udawalawe, Sri Lanka.

Elephants orphaned in the jungles of Sri Lanka are brought to this orphanage run by the Department of Wild Life. They are looked after and released into the Udawalawe wild life sanctuary bordering the orphanage. They come back from the jungle twice a day to get their quota of milk.

Click on each of the web-links below to watch video-clips of the feeding. Keep your loudspeakers on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM31sVP8NMA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtNwPei39xY

The view of the Uva valley from past Beragala, on the climb to Haputhale, Sri Lanka.

The stretches of glistening water near the horizon are the Udawalawe, Hambegamuwa and Chandrikawewa reservoirs.

Milk feeding time to orphan elephants, Udawalawe, Sri Lanka

Video taken by me on YouTube. Click on the links below:-

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM31sVP8NMA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtNwPei39xY

Great Cormorant, Udawalawe, Sri Lanka.

Wild elephant, Udawalawe, Sri Lanka.

Wild elephant behind the electric fence, Uda Walawe, Sri Lanka.

Minding the buffalos.

 

I saw this herd of domestic buffalos taking a bath in a stream at Udawalawe. There was only one man in charge of the herd. The second picture shows them being guided home.

Waiting for some fruits, Udawalawe.

An electrified fence seperating the wild elephant from the Udawalawe-Thanamalwila road, the elephant waits for fruits to be thrown across the fence by passers-by.

Nikapotha, a look into the Udawalawe basin.

I took this photo on the road to Beragala coming up from Nikapotha. It was around 4pm.

Wild buffalos at Uda-Walawe national park, Sri Lanka.

Water buffaloes are notorious for for their strength. They have been domesticated and used in South Asia for millenia. They are also very stubborn, very impulsive and stupid. They stick together as herds. They are dangerous animals to meet when they are together as a herd, in the jungles.
I took this picture at the Uda Walawe National park in Sri Lanka.