by Windy Borman | Dec 14, 2009 | Eyes of Thailand, Notes from Soraida and FAE, Notes from the Director
Unfortunately, Soraida and the vets at FAE cannot save every elephant that visits their hospital. Tahnee was a 70+-year old elephant Asian Elephant and a permanent resident at FAE. (Elephants can live for 60-80 years). On December 5, 2009, Tahnee’s health...
by Windy Borman | Dec 13, 2009 | Eyes of Thailand, Notes from Soraida and FAE
December 12, 2009–New patient who arrived yesterday, MaeNoi, an eleven year old pregnant elephant, has been relieved from bloat. MaeNoi is already 15 months pregnant which means she was pregnant when she was only less than 10 years old. [According to Wikipedia, female...
by Windy Borman | Dec 13, 2009 | Eyes of Thailand, Notes from Soraida and FAE, Notes from the Director
Namfon is the youngest elephant at FAE. Earlier in 2009, we reported that: Namfon was disowned by her mother, Boonpan, shorty after she was born on April 27, 2009. Because elephants are social creatures, they learn parenting skills from the matriarchs in their...
by Windy Borman | Oct 26, 2009 | Eyes of Thailand, Notes from Soraida and FAE
Where do elephants go to retire? No, that is not the start of a bad joke, it’s a legitimate question for an endangered species who was captured from the wild, domesticated (usually through brutal methods) and spent its life begging on the street, logging,...
by Windy Borman | Sep 15, 2009 | Eyes of Thailand, Notes from Soraida and FAE, Notes from the Director
Soraida Salwala, founder of Friends of the Asian Elephant (FAE), is quoted in the Bangkok Post, speaking out against Thailand’s attempt to create trade goodwill with Japan by exporting 2 baby Thai Elephants to the Osaka Zoo. Below is an excerpt from the...
by Windy Borman | Sep 9, 2009 | Eyes of Thailand, Notes from Soraida and FAE
Soraida emailed the following update on Baby Namfon, who was rejected by her mother and has been nursed at the FAE Elephant Hospital since this spring, and Motala, the elephant landmine survivor who received her her first prosthetic limb on August 15, 2009–10...
