Baby Elephant Sleeps On Carers Lap

This is the heartwarming moment an orphaned baby elephant returns to her carer s lap days after being released into the wild and rejected by her own herd. The twoyearold jumbo named Chabakeaw was found trapped alone in mud in Bueng Kan, northeastern Thailand on April 4 and was rescued by wildlife officers. After five months of being handreared and nurtured, the department decided to release the baby back to her natural herd on September 18. However, on September 20 the officers discovered that she had