Nam Wang is a living Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) , located at the FAE Elephant Hospital, in Thailand.
Nam Wang arrived in 2020-12-09 to the FAE Elephant Hospital, relocated from the Thailand unspecified location, in Thailand.
Nam Wang lives together with 13 other elephants at the FAE Elephant Hospital:
Nam Wang was born unknown 2010? at Thailand unspecified location.
Late morning of today (9 December 2020), Dr. Thittaya Janyamathakul (Dr. Tip) of Patara Elephant Farm in Hang Dong District of Chiang Mai Province called Dr. Kay (Dr. Creuathong Kayan) , Director of the elephant hospital of Friends of the Asian Elephant Foundation, concerning a mother elephant that had given birth. The baby couldn’t manage to drink milk from the mother’s breast. Dr. Tip went in to see, and sent the mother elephant and her calf here to FAE Elephant Hospital. The mother elephant’s name is Pang Nam Wang, aged 11. Nam Wang gave birth at 2am on 8 December 2020. (This is her first calf.) The mother elephant is accepting of the baby. But the baby could not manage to drink milk from the mother’s breast. The owner and the Mahout tried to persuade the baby to feed from the breast. (The Mahout is still inexperienced.) At 3pm on 8 December 2020, Khun Nimit and Khun Wisa, who are the owners of a neighbouring elephant camp, came in to assist. They are experienced in bringing elephant calves to their mothers. The baby drank milk with the assistance of people pushing the baby to the mother’s breast. The breast was held so that the baby could drink from it. They got the baby to feed from interval to interval. At 2 am of 9 December, everyone went their own ways to take a rest. This morning, the owner called Dr. Tip to notify that the baby still couldn’t drink milk from the mother on his own. So, Dr. Tip went in to see. At 12.41, the mother elephant and her baby got on the truck on their way to the elephant hospital of Friends of the Asian Elephant Foundation in Lampang. Mother elephant, Nam Wang, and her baby arrived here at 14.21. The mother is accepting of the baby. She positions her front legs to allow the baby to drink her milk. Her breasts are full. The squeezed milk has a clear yellow appearance. The right breast has more milk than the left. (This is the elephant’s first calf. She was pregnant for 21 months. The birth was smooth. The afterbirth was released at 10am on 8 December.) The calf is a bull. (The owner hasn’t named him yet.) He is small and quite thin. The calf appeared very weak (due to not having had enough milk and rest). The calf showed signs of being hungry, but he couldn’t access the milk nor could he feed from the breast on his own. FAE keepers tried to push the baby to drink milk from his mother since their arrival. The baby began feeding successfully at 14.50 (for 4 seconds) while being supported. The baby had people pushing his back and holding his mother’s breast to help him access it. After that, he could feed from interval to interval while being supported. The baby alternated between sleeping while standing and lying down to sleep on his side, once on the left side and once on the right, around 10 minutes for each side. At 17.49, the baby managed to drink milk from the breast on his own without the support from the people around him. After that, he fed on his own from interval to interval. Each time, he would feed for around one minute to just over a minute.
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