How one woman mastered the art of raising orphaned elephants
In short: Discover the remarkable journey of Dame Daphne Sheldrick, a conservationist who pioneered the hand-rearing of newborn elephants in Kenya through decades of dedicated rescue work.
This video features a 2012 presentation at the American Museum of Natural History, where Dame Daphne Sheldrick discusses her life's work and her memoir. It explores her forty-year commitment to rescuing orphaned animals in East Africa and her success in developing a specialized formula designed to replicate the milk of a mother elephant. Her efforts focus on preparing these animals for a eventual return to the wild near Nairobi.
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