THE ELEPHANT WITH A SORE LEG.

Our scouts – who patrol our 4000acres of walking land - notified us that there was an injured elephant on the hillside below our treehouse The Elephant was having problems with intense swelling on its front left leg.  

The elephant resting his sore leg

The two MNC rangers that reside in camp thought it was the same one that a vet had already attended to because a MNC patrol car had last seen that Elephant close to one of the crossing points about 3Kms upstream from camp and they hadn’t seen it the day that we were informed about its whereabouts.  

We then decided to go up to investigate the situation that the elephant was in - Nick, Ole Ngume, two MNC rangers, and all the scouts.



Save the Elephants came to support



When we found it was limping badly and was not moving much. Over a course of three days the Elephant had only moved only about 700 meters. The MNC rangers had informed the headquarters about its whereabouts and its condition of the front left leg.

Checking his leg

On the 25^th October I was given a report from the MNC rangers that there was a vet coming to try and help the elephant. When the vet arrived we were waiting about 300 meters from the Elephant so that he could get a good shot for the dart to tranquilize it so it could be treated. The vet recognized the elephant and knew that it was the same one he had only recently treated.



Almost done with the check up

They gave it a large dose of anti inflammatory injections although the injury is still unknown, the vet and his assistant thinks it has a broken upper leg, although they also say it may possibly be a snake bite! Let’s hope that the elephant soon recovers from his injury.

By Nick Wootton