End of Week 2

This is the baby of the family, Ingadze. He was just so cute I had to take a picture :)

This week was pretty fun. I mostly worked with the keepers and watched them do training sessions with the elephants. The most challenging was probably working in the rain because it was cold, but it was also kind of fun because I got to wear a bright yellow rain suit. The best part about the rain was being able to watch all of the baby elephants playing in the mud. There are cameras all around the yard and while we were on our break, we were able to watch the elephants playing on a muddy hill. It was so funny because they would slide down on their bellies and then try to walk back up but they kept sliding back down. You could tell they were having so much fun in the rain. It let me see a whole side of the elephants that I had never witnessed before. I've never seen animals with such personality! It was also cute when some of the adults started playing with the kids. Even big Mabhu (their dad) was sliding down the hill with them.