This is Kumbura here, she looks a little bit taller. She is growing up nicely and is healthy.
She is also very very protective when it comes to Khanyisa. She is more like a surrogate mother.
I'm sure you also know a lot about her now that when she arrived here she was skin and bones and very very thin.
And she spend months and months in the stables. And at some point she couldn't get up.
But we were lucky that we had these youngsters like Mambo, Limpopo and Pisa, who were her age, so they gave her all the comfort she needed
She survived the trauma that she went through because she spent a lot of time with her own species after she lost her mother.
So the Jabulani herd have done a lot in terms of looking after her and raising her as part of the entire herd.
There were so many measures taken to make sure that she was ok.
We were on standby 24/7 to make sure that she received all the care that she needed.
At the moment you can see she more of a free, independent elephant.
Though she stays very close to Timisa and Khanyisa, and is very protective.
She is also quite active and contributes a lot to caring for the other young elephants or those of her age.
She is a lovely lovely elephant, but at some point she freaks out when she finds that she is standing on her own and there is no one around her.
And she has the baby. She thinks somebody will take away the baby. She just screams...
Calling for backup. I've seen it happen...
She is a lovely elephant, doing well. I'm glad that we have her within this herd. Their role is very important for the young orphans, like Timisa and Khanyisa.
They need to learn all these instincts, which is what Kumbura is actually providing to them. So it's a very good thing that she is in this herd.