Dame Daphne Sheldrick
How hard is raising elephants?
In early infancy, it's very, very difficult because their milk is very specialized. And they're milk-dependent for the first three years of their life. If they've been well-meaningly fed cow's milk before they're brought to us, we usually can't rescue them. Their stomachs are in such turmoil.
What do you feed them?
Our nursery in Nairobi uses human baby formula. Most of the fat is vegetable, mainly coconut. The nearest thing to the fat in elephant's milk is coconut.
In your new book,
Love, Life and Elephants
, you claim that elephants mourn their dead....
