New white elephant lives happy and healthy with mother mammal

A 33-year-old female elephant called Zar Nan Hla kept by the Myanma Timber Enterprise in Taungup Township of Rakhine State has given birth to one white male elephant at 6:30 am on 23 July 2022. The baby elephant is two feet and five inches in height, three feet and one inch in girth, two feet in back length and has a one foot and six inches long tail with its birth weight of 180 pounds.

The newly born white ele­phant has pearl-coloured eyes, a plantain branch-shaped back, white hair, a distinctive tail, aus­picious plot signs on the skin, reddish-brown or pinkish skin, five claws on the front legs and big ears. Therefore, these fea­tures conform with seven out of eight characteristics.

At three months old, the baby white elephant is two feet and nine inches in height, and four feet in girth and weighs about 260 pounds. He stays healthy and happy under the human friendly training system with his mother elephant, ac­cording to the Ministry of Natu­ral Resources and Environmen­tal Conservation.

MNA