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11 months

A lady on a mission! Watch Tokwe’s confident strut as the matriarch moves across her wilderness 🍃

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6 months

Boy, can this bull run! 🐘 Phabeni is full-steam-ahead on his adventure out with the gang, with his dinosaur blanket giving him extra flight as he races down the dirt road of our wilderness. Nandi, Lammie, Spotty, Herman and Adine are all out in force to support Phabeni!

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9 days

We are devastated to have to share this news with you today. Little Phabeni has passed away in our care, following a seven-month battle of ups and downs with his health. Full video: Blog:

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5 months

A baby elephant and a butterfly 🦋 Little elephant Phabeni looks extra adorable here as he lies down in the orphanage garden. Stretching out his tiny (and hairy) body on the grass, with a butterfly floating by. We could live in this moment forever 💕

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6 months

There’s no stopping a curious trunk 🐍 Phabeni’s little proboscis is in full explore mode alongside Jabulani.

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27 days

A HERD Hero, Never Forgotten | Elephant Carer, Kenneth Shambira

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1 month

Warm milk bottles for a precious baby on a rainy day in the bush 🌿🐘 #everyelephantneedsaherd #ourphabeni #herdelephants #elephantorphanage #elephants #babyelephant

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1 year

How would you do? Reckon you could beat Khanyisa at a drinking-milk-from-a-bottle contest? 🎥 @MarlonDuToit

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4 months

A new day for orphan bull Phabeni as he walks with his adopted elephant family 💚🐘🙏🏽 These are the moments that make us so proud of the work we do! 🎥 by carer Owen

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6 months

Phabeni on the move 💚🐘

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2 years

Look who has been practising! Khanyisa is getting better and better at drinking her milk by herself 🐘🍼

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7 months

MERRY CHRISTMAS 🎄🐘💦 from one joyful little calf! Go Phabeni, go. #everyelephantneedsaherd

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3 months

Save the Elephant Day 💛 As South Africa’s first dedicated elephant orphanage with a homestead for orphans integrated into a herd, our purpose is to care for every orphaned elephant that is brought into our care at HERD, help them rehabilitate and integrate into a nurturing herd.

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29 days

Delicious sweet potatoes for sweet Phabeni 🍠🐘 Every day is a new day with Phabeni. Some days he turns his trunk up at sweet potatoes and other days he happily guzzles them down 🍠 #everyelephantneedsaherd #ourphabeni #herdsouthafrica #elephantorphanage #babyelephants

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4 months

On chilly days, we all need an extra layer or two. Phabeni is wrapped up in one of our favourite baby elephant blankets, one that was donated by a cat lover and found a new use and home with Khanyisa, before being passed on to Phabeni. What a tale these threads could tell… 🧶

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11 months

Weekend mode activated 😴 #flashback #memories #elephantorphanage #khanyisa

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1 year

Hold my hand, I’ll keep you safe 🐘✨

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1 year

The Most Precious Baby Elephant Sighting in Our Wilderness!

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2 years

Sleepy Baby Elephant, Khanyisa Takes a Nap in the Bush with Timisa & Lundi 😴 watch the full video here:

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1 year

Khanyisa marches after Adine on a morning in the bush, between Klaserie and Mambo, with Kumbura following after her closely. The beautiful skies light up the new day as the elephants head through their wilderness home together. #everyelephantneedsaherd

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1 year

Walking with giants! We catch up with the herd on foot as they move through the reserve with their carers guiding them. Where the herd goes and feeds during the day changes so to give a break to the vegetation and prevent overgrazing or damage to the land.

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4 months

Active growing bulls need lots of fuel! Carer Last is on hand with milk bottles for Phabeni as he is joined by the herd for his bush drink. New surrogate mother, Setombe is right beside him and enjoying her own snack of a huge tree branch. 🐘💚 #everyelephantneedsaherd

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6 months

Up close with elephant bull Sebakwe 🐘 He’s by far the biggest elephant in the herd, towering over Adine as he comes over to greet her. But he’s still ‘seun’ to her. That’s ‘seuntjie’ without the diminutive suffix. So Sebakwe simply went from being ‘little boy’ to being ‘boy’ 💕

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3 months

On a morning at the orphanage, Phabeni is not overly interested in our human toys, and much more eager to follow Nandi the German Shepherd about 🐘✨ Carers Joshua and Herman will have to see to the gardening on their own.

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1 year

Khanyisa has the best morning routine 🍼🐘 #breakfastofchampions #everyelephantneedsaherd

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1 year

26 year old bull, Jabulani, enjoying all that the trees in the reserve have to offer 🌳

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5 months

Peekaboo! Good morning, friends! 💛🐘

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1 year

Elephant orphan, now herd member, Kumbura walks with her adoptive family through the African wilderness at sunset ☀️

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5 months

Precious Phabeni Sundays ☀️

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1 year

African elephants have a very complex family structure. It’s a cooperation between all the females. Usually the cows are all related, but in our herd, the older females are not linked by blood. They still care for the young, though, and do so together.

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22 days

Guess whose little tusk has emerged! Phabeni has cut his first tiny tusk and we are so glad for him, as the discomfort should hopefully ease. This area appeared very swollen and certainly looked painful for many weeks. Now we wait for the second tusk to show.

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6 months

Blooming friendship with Phabeni and Joshua 🐘 Phabeni's feisty spirit is on full display as he plays in the garden with Joshua, showing off his lively personality. The carers form deep emotional connections with the elephants, and the cross-species connections are unbreakable💚

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2 months

Please send Phabeni your positive wishes and healing thoughts ❤️‍🩹 The little champ is not doing well today. He has no energy which is certainly not how we know him to be. He is usually our little feisty fighter.

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2 years

Pink baby elephant, Khanyisa goes swimming with her herd! | New on the Carer Cam 🎥🐘 watch the full video here: ...

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9 months

Beautiful New Baby Elephant Twins & the Wild Albino Has a New Calf!

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3 years

Heartbreaking News 💔🐘🙏🏽 We are devastated to share the news that Fenya, who fought so incredibly hard to hang on and survive the effects of a brutal and cruel snare, has taken her last beautiful breathe and passed away, surrounded by the love and care of our team.

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5 months

Tiny trunk - tons of fun! 🐘 Little Phabeni shows off his trunk skills to human mom, Adine 💚 #everyelephantneedsaherd #herdsouthafrica #elephantorphanage #ourphabeni #phabeniherd #elephantlove #elephant #babyelephant

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1 year

Timisa and Khanyisa throw themselves into a new mud bath with the herd 💦

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1 year

Monday Memories! Khanyisa practicing those tackling skills! 💖🐘

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3 months

Phabeni, Lammie, and Spotty are hopping into Easter with their bouncing bunny ears in full swing! 🐑🐘 We hope you have a lovely Easter weekend, friends! 💚 #everyelephantneedsaherd #ourphabeni #elephantorphanage #herdelephants #babyelephant #elephant

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1 year

This month’s birthday elephant, Jabulani meets up with little Khanyisa, both wet and muddy from a recent puddle splash! Just look at the size difference between a 26 year old and 3 year old elephant 🐘 and of course the colour difference between Jabulani and albino calf, Khanyisa

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2 years

The Happiest Muddy Little Elephants, Khanyisa & Timisa And Serious Dam Time! 💦 Full video:

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1 year

Amazing Scenes of Pink Baby Elephant Khanyisa Swimming & Climbing on Timisa 🐘💖 Khanyisa looks extra pink in this scene of her swimming with her herd! Or rather, with Timisa! She can’t get enough of her favourite little playmate.

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8 months

Baby elephant Khanyisa & her loving carer, Reply out in the bush together ☀️

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1 year

Kumbura & Khanyisa 🐘 Head to head, heart to heart ❤️ #everyelephantneedsaherd

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3 months

You’ve seen a pink Khanyisa, but have you ever seen a red Khanyisa? 🐘 Khanyisa and Timisa are having the time of their lives rolling around and climbing over each other, and getting covered in red soil in the process.

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2 years

Happy New Year from Khanyisa & HERD! 💖🐘✨

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5 months

Sunshine walks with the elephants ☀️ As the sun starts to set, the elephants head home for the evening. You can see Khanyisa walks faster and faster as they get closer to the homestead (where her milk bottles are waiting for her).

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6 months

It is raining cats and dogs in our wilderness and the elephants are loving it! Watch Sebakwe in his elephant-element in the waterhole 💦

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1 year

Albino Baby Elephant, Khanyisa is Ready & Waiting for Her Delicious Milk Bottles 🍼 Carer Emmanuel helps Khanyisa to her bush lunch of milk bottles 🍼 while out with the herd in the reserve.

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1 year

Muddy Princess incoming! 💦

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2 years

Khanyisa may be able to drink her milk by herself now, but she’s still just as impatient as ever for that second (and now third) bottle 🐘🍼

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3 months

Trunk greetings with Jabulani, Reply and Tichaona 💚 Did you know that carers gently blow into their trunks so the elephants can identify them by scent, as they do with members of the elephant herd 🐘 #everyelephantneedsaherd #herdelephants #herdsouthafrica #elephants

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7 months

Albino Baby Elephant, Khanyisa Comes Running for Her Evening Milk Bottles 🍼

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8 months

HAPPY BIRTHDAY STAVROS! In celebration of our beloved elephant carer, Stavros Chakoma, watch this sweet clip captured by James Suter / Black Bean Productions as a young elephant orphan named Shawu hears his name being mentioned and runs over to Stavros in response.

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7 months

Delicious Mud Baths for Baby Elephant, Phabeni with Mama Adine 🐘 full video —

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8 months

Yesterday afternoon we had a livestream from the orphanage for the first time in a while. Meet 4 month old Phabeni, the newest baby elephant orphan at HERD 🐘 Watch the nearly 1 hour long livestream on YouTube:

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1 year

Beautiful new mornings 🐘💚 Have a sunshiney day, friends!

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20 days

Blessmore is one of our valued elephant carers. And a passionate storyteller. He has an amazing history with the original herd of elephants and travelled with them from Zimbabwe to South Africa in 2002. Sebakwe knows he has a loyal friend in this icon of the carer team. ✨

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11 months

Khanyisa sees Tokwe getting all of the attention and reverses into place to make sure she gets some too 💦 🥹

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7 months

Those peaceful Phabeni snores 🐘 😴

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8 months

Waterbaby Phabeni 💦

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10 months

Hurry up Mom, my milk is getting cold! Khanyisa runs towards Stavros to get to her favourite dinner-time feeding 🍼

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1 year

Good night ✨ from all of us! 🐘

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2 years

Baby Elephant Khanyisa & Her Adoring Nanny, Klaserie | A New & Deeper Bond is Developing 💗

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1 year

Help make a big difference in a little elephant’s life and donate to KHANYISA’S LAST MILK BOTTLES 🍼 today on World Milk Day! Donate a bottle here: THANK YOU for helping us to raise this special albino calf, snare survivor Khanyisa! @GlobalGiving

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4 months

Phabeni enjoys a drink of water behind mama Setombe on a visit to the waterhole 💦💚 Estimated to have been four months old when he was rescued in November, Phabeni is around eight months old now. And still a tiny little figure when seen beside his new family.

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2 years

As we near the beginning of a new year, we remember Khanyisa’s rescue and arrival in January 2020. How far she has come since this wee age of four months 💖🐘☀️

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1 year

Walk with Elephants | A Drone View Over Khanyisa & the Herd 🍃🐘 Full video on YouTube:

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19 days

Phabeni in the lead 🩵 — while Khanyisa and Sebakwe follow after the now 11-month old bull in the bush. 📷Captured by elephant carer, Last #everyelephantneedsaherd

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1 year

Elephants, impala, zebra… a beautiful wilderness scene of harmony in nature 🌱 #southafrica #herdsouthafrica

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1 month

Big sister, Khanyisa, loves having Phabeni back with her and the herd 🐘💚 #everyelephantneedsaherd #herdsouthafrica #babyelephants #elephantlove #elephants

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3 months

After an escort back to the orphanage by momma Setombe, Phabeni savours his milk bottles with carer Stavros 🍼 #everyelephantneedsaherd #herdsouthafrica #babyelephants #ourphabeni #phabeniherd #elephants

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2 years

Baby Elephant on the Run! Watch Khanyisa’s Sweetest Running Moments! 💕🍃 FULL video:

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11 months

The Cutest New Baby Elephant in the Wild Herd 🩷🐘🩷

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5 months

An exhilarating moment for us! A hippo rises out of the water as we give elephant orphan Phabeni a bath in the dam 💦 That’s one close encounter 🦛

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1 year

Baby Elephant Khanyisa Visits Her Sheep Friends! And Has a Weigh-in! 🐘🐑 A beautiful reunion! Watch Khanyisa as she visits her sheepy pals, Lammie and Nungu as she goes to the orphanage for a weigh-in. Meisiekind is pushing 830 kilograms! 1830 pounds!

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2 months

Slurps of contentment 🐘🍼 That’s one healthy Meisiekind. #khanyisabraveheart

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1 year

LITTLE SURVIVOR #throwbackthursday Khanyisa “Sunshine”, albino snare victim and orphan, enjoying new found healing in the waters of her private orphanage pool in 2020 🐘💖

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5 months

Morning cuddles with our big bundle of energy and joy 🐘 Phabeni, you are surrounded by love. #goodmorning #everyelephantneedsaherd

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2 years

Adine is Surrounded by Khanyisa, Timisa & All the Elephants as they Investigate Her Grazed Knee

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5 months

Phabeni, Lammie and Spotty enjoy a peaceful morning walk together in the long grass next to the homestead 🐘🐑 A simple yet heartwarming scene, capturing the everyday beauty of their friendship under the morning sun ☀️ #everyelephantneedsaherd #herdsouthafrica #phabeniHERD

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7 months

Carer Stavros helps keep Phabeni warm on an overcast morning in the bush, as big bull Jabulani comes to visit the little elephant at the orphanage 🩵 #everyelephantneedsaherd

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1 year

A Baby Albino Elephant with the Bluest Eyes! #FlashbackFriday ~ for new followers who missed those moments with Khanyisa when she arrived after being rescued, we wanted to share scenes with you of the calf at 4 months. So you can see how far she’s come!

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6 months

Khanyisa here, just reminding you how much I love my milk bottles 🍼 Khanyisa is 4 years 3 months old and on her way to being weaned around the age of 5 years. It’s a slow process and for now her bottles are still helping to keep her in tip-top form for all her adventuring.

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16 days

Spotty, as curious as ever, is keen to join in on a fun sand bath with baby Phabeni, Adine and carer Reply 🐑🐘 #everyelephantneedsaherd #elephantorphanage #babyelephant #elephantlove

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9 months

Up close with adorable little Timi 🐘 Timisa uses her trunk, tusks, and even feet to get herself some bark. Snacking is hard work!

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20 days

Timisa shows us that her little tusks are also growing 😀 — with a proud display of them as she forages in the wilderness 🐘💚

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4 years

Orphaned #elephant Khanyisa's adoptive sister Kumbura, comes to fetch her two mornings in a row! Full video: #elephant #AnimalOfTheDay #animallovers #elephantorphanage

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4 months

The Happiest Garden Gang with Elephant Baby, Phabeni & His Sheep and Dog Friends 💚 full video:

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2 years

Heartwarming Moments as Bubi and Albino Elephant Baby, Khanyisa Splash & Swim in the Dam 💦💕💦 Watch it all here:

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1 year

Get those milk bottles ready! I’m coming! 🐘🍼🐘 #khanyisabraveheart

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9 months

Someone has some pep in her step as she heads off to find her evening milk bottles 🍼

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6 months

Morning munchies with little Phabeni in the orphanage 🍃💚🍃

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1 year

Big Splashes for Pink Baby Elephant Khanyisa, Timisa & the Water-Loving Herd! 💦 full video: Watch Jabulani splashing energetically with his trunk as he enters the dam!