Keepers' Diaries, March 2023

Kaluku Neonate Unit



While orphaned elephants and rhinos remain in our care for many years, the reintegration journey of most creatures unfolds at a much quicker pace. As a result, our eclectic Kaluku herd is always shifting, as orphans reclaim their place in the wild and others enter the fold. We haven’t seen Mkubwa the buffalo and his girlfriend, Kidogo, in quite some time — this makes us happy, as it means they have linked up with local buffalo herds. Right now, it is Susu the big eland, Billy the little eland, and Kwale the hartebeest who make up the herd. They spend most of their day with Twiggy the giraffe. In fact, the quartet have become such a unit that we now refer to them as the ‘four musketeers’.