Bhunte: The baby elephant

After many days of his long journey through South Africa, Bhunte met Amaka, an African elephant girl calf. On his way to the waterhole, he came across Amaka and became her friend.

Amaka looks like Bhunte. It just that unlike Bhunte’s relatives, she will bear a pair of tusks, her back is little curved, a trunk tip, skull shape and toenails are different than Bhunte. In Bhunte’s relatives, Asian elephants, only male elephants show secretions from the forehead (temporal glands, a few females do show occasionally), whilst Amaka both her aunts and uncles secrete from the temporal gland when they are reproductive-ly high or tensed due to some other reasons. Amaka is the forest elephant and will travel with her herd to different forests. Amaka grabbed Bhunte by his trunk and took him to introduce to her family.

“Mom,  meet my new friend- Bhunte” she trumpeted. “Welkom, dear Bhunte”, said her mom. Bhunte was very happy. He raised his tail and ran towards them. Amaka’s mom was very very tall than Bhunte’s mom. They sniffed Bhunte and he slowly rubbed his body against Amaka’s mother forelegs. They were happy to have Bhunte as a guest.

Though Bhunte will never meet Bako, he was very happy to have Amaka as his friend. Bhunte shared about the forests he lived in. And Amaka took him around her home. Both of them started playing by tossing their body and holding the trunks.

Let the innocence prevails. Let the forests stay like this forever. Bhunte wished.