24 March 2024
A white male elephant was born at 6:30 am on 23 July 2022 by the 33-year-old female elephant called Zar Nan Hla from the Myanma Timber Enterprise in Taungup Township of Rakhine State. When the baby elephant was born, he was 2 feet and 5 inches in height, 3 feet and 1 inch in girth and weighed 180 pounds.
The name of white elephant is Rattha Nandaka. It has pearl-coloured eyes, a plantain branch-shaped back, white hair, a distinctive tail with a tuft of hair at its end, auspicious plot signs on the skin, reddish-brown or pinkish skin, five claws on the front legs, four claws on the back legs and big ears. Therefore, these features conform with seven out of eight characteristics of a typical white elephant.
At one year and eight months old, the baby white elephant is 4 feet and 1 inch in height, 6 feet and 7 inches in circumference and weighs about 1,243 pounds. Under the peace human and elephant interaction training, he stays healthy and happy with his mother elephant, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation.
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