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Soon after leaving the stockades the orphans split into two groups. One group headed for lucerne while the other settled for acacia pods dropped by monkeys. Kilaguni, who has become a lone ranger, joined the dependent orphans for some lucerne in the morning and later, walked with the orphans out to browse. Wanjala had brief pushing game with Kuishi and later played with Rapa. Sana Sana played with Malima while Tusuja tackled Mundusi. 

It was a bright sunny day and the orphans concentrated on browsing right up to mud bath time. Soon after taking their milk bottles, most of the orphans headed for wallowing and later went for soil dusting to dry their wet bodies. Namalok and Tusuja enjoyed climbing on their friends while they lay on the ground. As the orphans were getting ready to leave, one wild bull showed up and was later joined by two more. Karisa and Tusuja were the last ones to leave the mud bath and slowly walked to catch up with the others. Later in the evening, the orphans attended a roadside mud bath before heading back to the stockades. 

The orphans woke up in a happy mood expressed by their running, trumpeting and swinging of their trunks as they disappeared out in the bush. Karisa played with Malima while Galla played with Kuishi. Tusuja kept trying to chase a bird but didn't manage to catch it. Later, Kuishi settled to scratch against an acacia tree while Karisa teamed up with Galla and Rapa to browse. The rest of the morning was quiet as the orphans browsed calmly without any major distractions like earlier. 

At mud bath time, only Kanjoro, little Rapa, Namalok, Zurura, Kilaguni and four wild bulls decided to wallow in the mud bath. Turkwel escorted Dololo to take his milk and after walked with him over to the water trough to drink water. Barsilinga, Maramoja and Kuishi headed for soil dusting and were later joined by their friends. In the afternoon, Garzi played with Bomani while Kilaguni played with Mutara. In the evening, the orphans passed by the mud bath and they all participated in wallowing before heading back to the stockades for the night. 

A wild family consisting of mother, her three calves and a friend joined the orphans for Lucerne in the morning. Meibai, who was also present, took his share of Lucerne and walked off to the side a bit, to avoid running into trouble with the tough wild mother. As soon as the Lucerne was finished, the wild family accompanied the orphans and ex-orphans out to browse. Mundusi challenged Tusuja to a wrestling match while Olsekki tried Bomani. Mteto, Barsilinga and Mapia settled for a scratching exercise while Pare tackled Jotto. Kainuk intervened by separating the two boys but Pare ran to tackle Karisa who was close by. Karisa stood firm as he saw it coming. Pare was unlucky again because as soon as he locked trunks with Karisa, Kanjoro emerged from nowhere and this prompted Karisa to run away to avoid trouble with Kanjoro. Pare then remained with no playmates and Kanjoro pointed his trunk towards Pare warning him to stop intimidating his fellow age-mates. 

Later, Naseku used her one protruding tusk to peel bark from a tree. The wild herd accompanied the orphans to the mud bath as well. The weather was chilly and only Kanjoro, who has become a water boy, decided to get into the water to have a bath. Later, he was joined by Kilaguni. The rest of the herd participated in a soil dusting exercise before wandering off to continue browsing. In the afternoon, Sities took over the duty of staying close to Dololo from Suguta. In the evening, the orphans returned back safely to the stockades for the night. 

Ambo was in a playful mood this morning and he engaged Naseku in a pushing game. Naseku handled him in a tender manner because she knew that Ambo was not really strong enough to fight her properly. She even encouraged him to continue playing with her. Ambo quit playing with Naseku when he felt that he had enough warm-up exercise for the morning. Naseku decided to have her own game of rolling on the ground, a game that also attracted Mapia. Later Naseku had a light pushing game with Kuishi. 

Out in the bush, Sapalan teamed up with Mapia to browse and from time to time they would threaten each other. The orphans settled to browse in the Kone area. Namalok took a break from feeding to have a pushing game with Enkikwe. 

At mud bath time, a wild bull walked past where the milk bottles for the dependent babies had been arranged for them to come down for their 11am feed, and stopped to look at the bottles, before walking away. He was probably wondering what they were for! After their milk, Mteto and Ndiwa had a brief strength testing exercise as Kanjoro and Kilaguni headed straight for a wallowing session. The rest of the group participated in soil dusting before going back out to browse. Later in the afternoon, the orphans paused their browsing session to enjoy a road side mud bath. In the evening, Esampu led the way back to the stockades. 

Namalok and Sapalan, soon after leaving the stockades this morning, were locked in a pushing game that went on for quite some time. It wasn't clear if the two had dreamt about how they would each tackle the other in the morning, but they went straight at it as soon as they met up this morning. Perhaps they had an unfinished game from the day before. Mutara’s herd was with the orphans again this morning. Naseku enjoyed a warm up exercise with Esampu through pushing each other, while Wanjala attempted to interrupt their game by climbing on Naseku. Lemoyian tried to climb on Roi but was pushed down by Bomani. Mapia spent some time playing with Jotto and later, Lemoyian tackled Wanjala. Orwa played with Kilaguni as the rest of the herd concentrated on browsing. 

At mud bath time, the temperature was moderate but none of the orphans dared to step into the mud bathing water. Pare engaged Jotto in a pushing game while Namalok kept himself busy by playing with Wanjala. In the afternoon, Olsekki played with Bomani and later moved to play with Kanjoro. Suguta spend most of her time feeding with Dololo. In the evening, Kuishi led the way back to the stockades.