21-year-old elephant at Wingabaw Camp gives birth to healthy twins

The 21-year-old female elephant Pearl Sanda at the Wingabaw elephant camp in Phayagyi, Bago Region, gave birth to twin elephants on 26 August for the first time, and the babies are in good health, according to the Wingabaw elephant camp.
The first twin, a female baby named Pearl Sint, was born at 3:38 am, and the second twin, a male baby named Kyaw Pearl, was born at 3:42 am.
“After the delivery, their height is lower than usual, and as they are short, they cannot suck milk well. So, we have to breastfeed them with a wooden stool after milking the mother elephant. Then we make liquid milk from milk powder and feed them with a milk bottle, but now the elephants have learned to suck milk, and their health is good,” said an official from the camp.
It is infrequent for a mother elephant to give birth to twins.
“Twin elephants are rare. They usually give birth to one baby only. But we have records of twin elephants born in Myanmar. In the whole country, this is the 11th time twins have been born, and this is the first time for this elephant camp in Myanmar,” he added.
In addition to rare twin cases, even if twins are born, the babies do not survive, or the mother usually dies. — Thit Taw/ZN