People usually have pets like cats, dogs, parrots, turtles, or fish, but how often do you see someone with a pet elephant? These majestic creatures belong to the wild, but one little fella found his way into the home of a kind woman, and they became the best friends.

We at Bright Side were thrilled to learn all about the unusual friendship of a baby elephant and a woman, and the story of how they wound up together is something really special.

Roxy Danckwerts is the founder of Wild Is Life, which is an animal sanctuary in Zimbabwe. And one day, while working, she stumbled upon a baby elephant that seemed to be lost and separated from its herd. The small baby elephant almost drowned in a river while the herd was trying to cross it, and its health was in critical condition.

The baby elephant was found at the shores of Lake Kariba, and the efforts to find his herd were in vain because there were no elephants in the area. At that time, the elephant was just a few days old, fragile, scared, and separated from its family. Roxy decided to nurse the elephant back to health, but what she didn’t expect was for the 2 of them to become best friends.

The baby elephant was rescued in February of 2014 and was very underweight when they first found him, weighing only 56 kg, and normally an African elephant calf is supposed to weigh around 90 — 100 kg. Furthermore, due to the trauma he suffered, the first few weeks of his life were very challenging, and it was a miracle that he even survived at all.

Roxy spent a lot of time with the baby elephant, giving the baby 18 liters of specialized formula every day. They spent a lot of time together, and Roxy even slept with him, so it doesn’t come as much of a surprise that he became so fond of Roxy and now follows her everywhere she goes.

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