An update of Bunma and baby Chaba after first night at ENP- EleFlix 

Yes, aren't they? The calves at least are so natural and curious. The mothers break my heart, they have had such a weight to bear. Yet they're kind, and are learning how to get along as a herd.

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li'l squeaker!! 🥰

Note the title of this video, that being an update after their first night. That was August 12. In case you haven't heard yet, the mother elephant, Bunma, has been nursing her baby from both breasts since August 13th, just shortly after rescue. They are both doing well, feeding and sleeping well, they are putting on weight, they have been discovering the peace of ENP, and Bunma has calmed quite a bit. She's come a long way in a very short time. This video was first posted on FB, then later to YT, so it wasn't "fresh" when it was uploaded here. For fresh reports, one needs to go to their FB page. Rest assured, Bunma and Chaba are doing very well. :)

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@@veroniqueboulvard6315 💐🙏🏽 😓

Bless you Lek

I love elephants too...You may be interested in this: Paul Farthing, an ex Royal Marine, who did spay & Neuter work on the animals in Afghanistan for years, got hundreds of animals out and landed safely in the UK yesterday. This is not to cheapen human life... these pets were put in Cargo and had a rough ride. This man deserves our thanks for his animal saving efforts. The Taliban made the decision to allow the pets, after 10 hours waiting in cages, deadly excessive heat, and trapped on a truck. It was life or death. Prayers answered!

Rose,hi I now find you Lek and Chaba here today! You are right Bodhisattva Lek by the time it gets to c 28:00 Chaba decides Lek is her little sister!! So beautiful! As I told you I am already in love with Chaba and so plan to follow up on her. So precious and how Lek gets in so close and Chaba clearly wants to play with her!!Can't wait to see when she and Pyi Mai are paling around together. A visit to Thailand to see her cannot come soon enough but I need to get to Africa first after Covid to begin to meet my babies. It was so kind for you to write when you realized I had such a deep and profound response to Lek's beautiful statement of soul above. Hope to get to "see "you often as special heart connection!! I am smiling on my face and in my heart. I feel my new life is beginning!With love and Light💖, Claudette

Videos are posted first to FB, then days later here at YT. We have learned on ENP's FB page, Aug. 13, that Bunma has been producing enough milk for both breasts, such that Chaba has been nursing from her mother for the last 5 days. :) Bunma will continue to learn the peace of ENP, and as soon as she selects a nanny, that nanny will provide for her great peace, a sense of safety and the ability to get the sleep that she needs, as well as stability and encouragement.

Yes but she can't do it all by herself. She doesn't have tons of money and maybe if everyone did something like contribute financially, volunteer etc.

The calf does not have the fear that she had at the old place; that is very good. Every moment that her mother is not swaying is also significant progress.

That poor, poor mother. I pray that her trauma heals and she knows joy and peace again. Horrors, forcing an elephant to RIDE A BIKE! Poor, poor mother.

I know. Omg it’s the sweetest thing 😭😭 We’ll now have a whole herd soon. Three babies, three mommas, and three nannies 🥰🥰 I hope they all get along and become a beautiful herd. Legit I could start crying right now

@@katewalsh9258 Yeah, when I heard about the bike riding I was just gobsmacked, can't imagine the cruelty which must have gone into forcing such a thing!

@@sylmacg1 the cruelty, and the FEAR. Can u imagine how TERRIFIED that elephant felt, that it would ride a bike? What would happen to the elie if she didn't ride it? They are at the mercy of people, and it's horrific what some people do

Can't wait to see them experience the river, they will come around.

N tearing buckets which contains mud water

They will! ☺️❤️❤️❤️ Chaba will get a nanny and Bunma can relax, eat, and nap whenever she wants to. Chaba will have freedom to play and just be a baby. 😘❤️❤️❤️

Hallo 🤗 to prawda wszyscy kochamy Lek 💖😍💕🥰 wszystkiego dobrego dla Ciebie również 🍀🌱🌠🤗 Monika 🙂

They're so empathetic.

Yes, I just subscribed and am learning so much. Wonderful to see such a nurturing place. I had no idea that elephants were so vocal. They have such fine voices, and I really hope they can bond with the new arrivals.

What a wonderful idea....when all this covid is over...yes, into the schools and universities ! Certainly ! Programmes on television!!!! Get the Young ones themselves to spread the word !!!❤💗🌺🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘❤💗

Lek has done much teaching of the people, has worked with children and others very similarly to the comments here, has been interviewed by the local television media there, was instrumental in the first-ever elephant-protection law coming into existence in Thailand in 2014. Lek's projects to save the elephants and to educate the people are more extensive than we know.

@@cacatr4495 Thank you. I am glad. Lek's work is truly amazing! Yes, the best way is to reach the hearts of a nation is to teach the children by adding the care of their national treasure to the school curriculum. Children they are the adults of tomorrow. 💕🐘💕🐘💕🐘👍🏻

@@JD-nd1oz I don't know if it's in their curriculum, I just know that Lek has shared the message with many children. *clarifying

Lekephant at 28:00 not 27.

I hope so too. The rest of them follow her around like the pied piper 🥰

Lek is in the herd for sure.

Yes, absolutely, elephants "talk" a lot to each other, and doubtless they tell newcomers that ENP is a good place, safe, that there are no worries there. But the mother-ele will likely have to see that proven before she fully relaxes, and it will take time in this safe, sane, peaceful environment for her to heal.

Probably telling them this is a safe place with freedom, respect and lotsa food. Maybe soon Sri Nuan will come check up baby too. She’s love multi nannying

@@veronicaoliveiro6367 Sri Nuan is so chill. She definitely puts stressed mothers at ease and the babies love her! I noticed even when there was food put out for them, if the baby wandered off, Sri stopped eating and followed behind. I am so thrilled for this mama and baby to be joining the ENP family! They have such a wonderful future to look forward to.

@@veronicaoliveiro6367 Wasn't Sri Nuan a nanny for Navaan? He gave all his nannies a run for their money, Lol, :) ~ I'm sure that Lek is lining up only the most stable and perfect candidates for the job. Faa Mai may want the job, but she doesn't have the experience or the contextual understanding of what a brutalized elephant has been through, though she's very smart, empathetic and loving. I'm certain Lek will make sure the nanny is someone Bunma can look up to, relate to, and trust, a wise nanny. :)

@Tanja Cavalli You might enjoy a website called Elephant Voices, and another called Hello In Elephant, about elephant language, and the translation work that has begun. :) They work with African elephants, it's very interesting!

The title of this video says it was an update after the first night, which was the morning of Aug.12. That was less than 24 hours after rescue, and that was weeks ago. She's come a long way since then, even by the time these comments posted, she was doing well, making great strides in reclaiming her peace. :)

@@cacatr4495 I'm aware if that

🙏♥️💚🙏 Monika 🤗

hello mary anne & all ~ where did this momma & baby come from ~ ? thanx

@@colecolettecole They were at a riding place I think and Momma was chained by her back leg. If they hadn't been rescued I think that poor calf would not have survived.

It is so moving to watch. I get the feeling that she is gradually shaking off those restraints and limits that kept her from moving naturally. Even now she seems a little less distressed, decompressing maybe? It's lovely how the other elephants are with her. So wise to let them get acquainted at their own pace, not to overwhelm the new mother.

Also, I remember reading from the late Gerald Durrell that the pacing of caged animals was once thought to be normal boredom. He found a good supplement formula for the animals in his zoo, vitamins and minerals baked into biscuits, which treated them and seemed to cure the condition. It's good to know how much can be learned to help abused animals recover a normal sense of themselves.

She probably is underage for an elephant, i doubt she is even 10years old, some of these slave masters cant wait to start breeding elephants.

@@hechpee Lek said she was a teenager, but it's hard to know exactly.

Yes Kham Moon was very stressed. As Lek mentioned in the video, it took months for her to truly get over her past and begin to realize she was now free and could begin to trust both people and other elephants.

When Bunma accepts a nanny, that will help her greatly, bringing her a source of encouragement, understanding, peace, security, mentoring, a way to get much needed sleep, and even to be mothered herself by that nanny, given her tender age. She's only a teenager, and is without her own mother, due to man's cruelties, but she'll relax as she learns to trust that nanny.

@@ms.cellaneous7458 Not everyone knows; there are a lot of readers. So you know, I didn't direct it to you, but thank you. It was in reply to the original comment. : )

@@ms.cellaneous7458 It wasn't that I don't appreciate people's agreement. To say, "We know." means that I needn't have contributed the comment, because you already know, but there are other readers here. I was polite, I was courteous, I explained my response the first time, and you're being unjustly rude. I even said 'thanks.' There are a lot of readers here; I was thinking about them. There's no call to put ego before grace, especially as pertaining to elephants. Thank you.

@@ms.cellaneous7458 Reality check: No one dictated to you anything. You are not the only reader here. But your narcissism and abuse are duly noted and shamed.

The other elephants will help her a great deal, especially the nanny she will soon choose and accept. That will change her life, bringing her great support and peace.

Yes, we all will be judged by our acts and the harshest judgement will come from ourselves once the veil is lifted. We have all suffered on this planet including the animals, plants and Mother Earth. This mother elephant seems traumatized.

How can we know what products, and stores selling them, are so we NEVER buy them---NEVER shop where they're sold. Information is power... 🤔❤️🐘🌏🥰❤️🤔

@@christinatweet6580 It is my understanding that the wood called Teak is brought out of the Asian rain forests by elephants, perhaps out of Burma/Myanmar. It's a beautiful wood that is fashioned into bowls, household adornments and furnishings, tables, end-tables, nightstands, but buying it supports an industry that forces elephants to work in logging. As we know, any time an elephant is made to work, they are first forced through Torture Training aka The Crush aka Phajaan, which kills up to half of all captive elephant calves. We should not buy paintings done by elephants, and we should be circumspect about imports, considering where they came from and how they were harvested before we buy.

@@barbaratardy9788 She IS traumatized, severely. She's only 16, and she looks as old as she does because of all the injury-scars she has from man's violence, and due to her great seriousness and sorrow. Her heart is heavy, overflowing with anguish.

The other elephants will encourage her, and the nanny she chooses and accepts will be a huge help to her, both with the baby and with sleep and peace.

and surprisingly HAIRY, ja??

And don't forget to check the "Like" button for the video too. Every little bit helps.I look at the ads as the price of admission. Fair's fair. Give a little to get a lot!

@@vblackwell3347 you bet

For readers that don't know, Bunma had trouble producing milk for her calf, but 5 days ago, her milk began to flow, first with one breast, then both, so Chaba has been nursing from her mother since that time. Bunma has been very traumatized by the brutality she suffered, so distressed that she's not really clued in to the fact that she has a baby at times. But as she learns the peace of ENP and sees the freedom, joy and love of the elephants that will seek to support her, especially of the nanny she will soon choose and accept, she will relax and experience peace for herself.

I just hope that if mom doesn’t have milk for her child that these people have the brains enough to know that they will need to give this baby a bottle feeding a couple times a day in order for her to definitely survive. God bless you. Sue❤️🙏🏻🐘🐘🤟🏻🌸🦋😍🌴❌⭕️

@@susanmorris5520 I knew you were evil.

Sharikay Don’t ever disrespect me ! I’m not the evil one here. I’m definitely the caring one.

Maple Cosy don’t speak to me ever again unless you have a kind bone in your body to say something nice. I only care about these babies and adult elephants. I have no disrespect towards the lady who runs the place I just want what is best fo the elephants and their babies too. So, if you can’t say anything nice to me, the. Don’t say anything at all. I have a very smart brain in my head thank very much! God is watching you too and you judge others well, you will be judged too. Be careful.

@Family Skeens they posted on Facebook on 13 Aug, that mom is now producing milk for baby Chaba. I just saw it now. Such a relief.

I'm so glad to see you posting on these sites.💓

@@vblackwell3347 Thank you. I have a passion for the Truth and for elephants, I love them, wild horses too, and all Nature. But the Truth is little respected in the world, so there are great gaps in information. I wonder if my posts are too long or too many, but it's important to inform about elephants, they're vital, both as the precious intelligent creatures that they are, loving and empathetic, but also as the Asian Keystone species that they are. People don't often know that the most efficient method of reforesting damaged rain forests is to reintroduce the elephant to their former range. This is important, not boring, because like the wild horse, elephants are a non-ruminant species, which means, due to their single stomachs, their food is only lightly processed, not gleaned of all its nutrients, such that when a wild horse or an elephant migrates and leaves behind their native-forage deposits, they are investing in the richness and vitality of the soil and increased vegetation. Ruminant species are many (cattle, elk, deer, bison, water buffalo, pronghorn, moose, bighorn sheep, sheep, and many others) due to their numerous chambered stomachs, process the heck out of their food, such that their waste deposits are stripped of nutrients, making them of little value to the soil. But the single-stomached large herbivore migrators, the elephant and the horse/donkey/equine that eat native forage, can reseed and nourish the land like nobody's business. It is vital that they are big eaters, and that they migrate in Nature the distances that they do, because they have a big job to do in bringing nourishment and seed deposits to the soil, which in turn increases native forage for thousands of other species. ONLY the big migrating herbivores with single stomachs do this, and their job is VITAL for the Earth. Elephants and wild horses ARE the Keystone species of the Earth. It is past time for mankind to wake up, and to learn wisdom. I hope this information, too, is found appreciable to insightful souls here. Thank you for your comment. (If there are times I don't reply, people should keep in mind that I'm not notified of all replies.) If people care about wild horses, they should see my playlist called "Critically Urgent & Important . ." about Arizona's Heber wild horses that the FS plans to remove soon. Thank you.

First, nursing mothers can''t be given medication due to the necessity of protecting her milk for the baby. Second, these videos come late to YT, they show up first on FB. Since this video showed up here, we have learned via ENP's FB page, that 5 days ago, Bunma began producing milk for Chaba, first in one breast, then with both, so Chaba has been nursing from her mother. Further, the encouragement and healing support from the other elephants that understand what Bunma has been through, will bring her great help, and especially the mature and stable, experienced nanny that Bunma will choose and accept soon. She will be able to sleep, she will learn that she can relax and be at peace, and her healing will become visible. :)

@@cacatr4495 👍 Happy to hear that the mama is able to produce milk for her baby and also that she will be able to relax more soon too. Thanks for all the information you gave!

Yup, that she's nursing is so touchy.

thank you, let us hope that every day there will be less ignorance in our world, and replaced with more animal lovers.

So true..🐘❤🙏

I agree with you all on that.👍🏻❤️🐘😍🙏🏻🤟🏻❌⭕️❌⭕️

I AGREE WITH YOU 💯 percent. 💗🐘