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When an elephant calf is born, it stands quickly its feet. It drinks milk from its mother for a few years. The mother elephant teaches her calf how to use its trunk. She teaches it many things. The mother elephant is very to an elephant calf.
Elephants travel a lot. Sometimes they have to cross rivers. A calf can be down a river. Or it can fall into a hole. When a calf is separated from its mother or its mother has been killed, it becomes an orphan.
In the wild, an elephant calf needs its mother. It can't live without her, or it can get sick. Some people, called keepers, take care of the orphan elephants in a park. The keepers take care of the elephants until they can take care of . Then, the keepers take the elephants back to the wild.
In the park, the keepers need to teach an elephant calf how to feed. To make it more , they rest its trunk against a huge blanket, which feels a little its mother. In the wild, an elephant calf will go under its mother to find shelter from the sun. At the park, the keepers put an over them.
One day, the keepers found Dika. He was all . The keepers took Dika to the park. He was taken care of, but he for his mother. It was a long time before Dika was happy again. Dika was ten years old before he could live in the wild, again. Many years later, he came back to the park. He had some wire around his leg. He needed the keepers to help him. Orphan elephants don't forger they were cared for.
