A baby elephant, around 18 months old, got rescued near Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe after people spotted him wandering by himself close to Zambezi National Park. The calf named Winston was super skinny and dehydrated when Wild is Life teams found him with help from ZimParks and IFAW, and hyenas had been chasing him before the rescue happened.
Rescuers had to search for days before finally tracking him down near Chambonda Tented Camp, and they darted him in crazy 38-degree heat before driving him 40 minutes to the Panda Masuie sanctuary. The other rescued elephants there, like Norah, Annabelle, Summer, and Maggie, started rumbling and trumpeting before they even saw him, and they surrounded him with their trunks when he woke up.
Winston refused to eat or lie down that first night, but keeper Paradzai Mutize eventually got him to take a bottle. The herd never left his side, and he started following them around to browse and dust bathe the next day.
Rescuers had to search for days before finally tracking him down near Chambonda Tented Camp, and they darted him in crazy 38-degree heat before driving him 40 minutes to the Panda Masuie sanctuary. The other rescued elephants there, like Norah, Annabelle, Summer, and Maggie, started rumbling and trumpeting before they even saw him, and they surrounded him with their trunks when he woke up.
Winston refused to eat or lie down that first night, but keeper Paradzai Mutize eventually got him to take a bottle. The herd never left his side, and he started following them around to browse and dust bathe the next day.
