Baby White Elephant thrives with mother

A 33-year-old female elephant called Zar Nan Hla kept by the Myanma Timber Enterprise in Taungup Township of Rakhine State gave birth to one white male elephant at 6:30 am on 23 July 2022. When it was born, the baby elephant was two feet and five inches in height, three feet and one inch in girth and weighed 180 pounds.
The white elephant’s name 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.
At two years old, the baby white elephant is four feet and six inches in height, seven feet and four inches in circumference and weighs about 1,395 pounds. It is reported that he stays healthy and happy at the Yadana White Elephant House in Nay Pyi Taw with his mother elephant under the ‘peace human and elephant interaction training system’ to have a better relationship with humans. — MNA/TRKM