The following is information on the Elephant Orphan named: IMENTI  (foster now)

Latest Updates on IMENTI:

• 2/12/2008 - Edo Returns
• 7/15/2007 - Ndume visits again after a long absence
• 5/7/2007 - Heart Warming Stories - THEN AND NOW -
• 6/18/2004 - Moving Taita, Olmalo, Selengai, Wendi, Tomboi and Napasha
• 5/12/2004 - Naserian's Rescue
• 6/18/2003 - SERAA, MPALA & MORANI GRADUATE FROM THE NAIROBI NURSERY
• 5/30/2002 - IMENTI (4TH MARCH - 30TH MAY 2003)
• 5/27/2002 - Mweya and Sweet Sally leave the Nursery
• 1/9/2002 - The Saga of Imenti, Ndume and Lewa

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Most Recent Keeper's Diary Entry: (view all the latest entries for IMENTI)

6/6/2010 - Led by Loijuk, the Youngsters settled down to browse in the Kanziku area until it was time to head for the mudbath, where they were joined by the Ex Orphans. All enjoyed a soil dusting session after which the Ex Orphans headed towards the Imenti Waterhole. They came to the Stockades in the evening again, took water from the Stockade trough and then headed out again.

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Imenti Ithumba photo taken on 12/21/2003	Imenti, in his night stockade at Ithumba photo taken on 11/21/2003

ORPHAN PROFILE FOR: IMENTI (foster now)

Zoom / Enlarge A male calf born l9.l.94 near the Imenti Forest in Meru; Age on Arrival - hours old. Named after the forest that still harbours what remains of his beleaguered herd, entirely surrounded by cultivation and cut off from their traditional migratory route to Mount Kenya, this calf was still covered in the foetal membranes on arrival, born as his mother died in a hail of gunfire, so is the youngest wild born elephant ever to have been successfully hand reared. Deprived of his mother's first colostrum to stimulate a new baby's immune system, he was a very fragile infant. Normally such calves never survive more than a few weeks, but in this case an infusion of plasma drawn from the blood of one of the older orphans saved the day. Today Imenti is the self appointed Protector of our orphaned family, chasing away intruders such as buffalo, and also protecting his human family from attack by buffalo the orphans encounter on their daily wanderings in the bush. Imenti likes the role of "Uncle" to all the younger orphans; the first to lie down for newcomers to become better acquainted by clambering over him, possessive of his orphan "family" and a mischievous elephant who enjoys the odd prank. He is extremely fond of Emily with whom he shared the Nursery, and is reluctant to be parted from her for any length of time, although he often travels with the other Big Boys, now independent.

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