Elephants & Giraffes!

Yesterday I went to an elephant orphanage. At the orphanage they help the orphans grow unti they are three years old, then they send them to a rehabilitation camp for 5-9 years or until they are accepted into another heard of wild elephants. Right now there are 14 elephants at the orphanage. The youngest is only 11 months old. Soe of their stories are: one fell down a man-hole; one was found in a forest when he was only 2 days old, and the people who found him wanted to eat him, so he had to be smuggled away from them! The elephant keepers have to feed them with milk out of a big bottle every 3 hours, 24 hours a day. I thought it was really cool and the elephants all semed very happy.

I also went to a giraffe centre.  At the centre they breed Rothschild giraffes which are almost extinct because the dictator Idi Amin from Uganda allowed the soldiers to use the giraffes as shooting target practise.  Did you know that the only living relative to a giraffe is an Okapi which has legs like a zebra, a body like an antalope and it waks like a giraffe!  It's very confused isn't it?
I thought the giraffe centre was really cool and I even kissed a giraffe.