VMD 512: Zoo/Wild Animal Breeding, Management, Nutrition and Health Care (1+1)

CARE TAKING OF ELEPHANT CALF

• Understand the legal status of the calf in any country.
• Don’t allow visitors to disturb the elephant calf by unnecessarily touching it because the animal is already under stress.
• Taming of elephant calf is to be done in a gradual manner.
• Care taker should not be changed frequently because the elephant calf appears to have attachment to the care taker.

• Provide adequate space arrangement
• Provide enough exercise to the calf
• Materials and utensils used for feeding should be cleaned well daily.
• Feeding is to be taken care of in scientific manner.
• Weaning of the calf may be done when the calf is of 15-18 months.