In Africa, Sulli the elephant was discovered alone about 20 years ago. As a newborn, she didn’t have her mother with her. She escaped a wildlife park with the help of animal rights advocates.
Adam, the reserve’s main caregiver, also acts as the reserve’s owner and, in some ways, as a mother to elephants like her.
According to the reserve’s executive director, Robert, he oversees the elephants’ daily care and well-being.
After gaining self-sufficiency in 2009, Sulli left the reserve with the permission of her guardians to live in the wild, in her native surroundings. She couldn’t help but think about Adam, who had saved and raised her.
While Sulli has been out in the wild for almost a decade, she never forgets the kindness shown to her, Robert said. It was never more evident than when Sulli came out of the woods with her infants to visit Adam.
