Insights
Update on Baby Namfon
Soraida Salwala, founder of FAE’s Elephant Hospital, lost Baby Namfon on December 19, 2009 after nursing her since April 2009, when her mother rejected her.
Meet the Patients: Tahnee
After trying to save Tahnee, a permanent resident at FAE, for several days, she collapsed on December 7, 2009 and passed away due to old age.
Meet the Patients: MaeNoi
December 12, 2009–New patient who arrived yesterday, MaeNoi, an eleven year old pregnant elephant, has been relieved from bloat. MaeNoi is already...
Meet the Patients: Namfon
Namfon was disowned by her mother shortly after she was born on April 27, 2009. Soraida and her staff at FAE are trying to help her gain weight and keep her warm this winter.
Coco Hall’s “Elephant Girl”, Part 3
Coco Hall Intertwines the lives of an Asian Elephant with that of a young girl who lives a parallel life. Both kidnapped in India as children, smuggled to the United States, they find themselves prey of an unimaginably foreign world. The tale rises upon the girl’s determination to break both their chains and return to India.
Coco Hall’s “Elephant Girl”, Part 2
Author Coco Hall shares an excerpt from Elephant Girl, her graphic novel based on the life of Calle the elephant, who was euthanized by the San Francisco Zoo in 2004. (Part 2 of 3).







