{"id":520,"date":"2011-09-21T00:20:47","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T05:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/?p=520"},"modified":"2020-01-03T14:56:36","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T19:56:36","slug":"naipoki-in-the-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/?p=520","title":{"rendered":"Naipoki  in the afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We returned to the Sheldrick orphanage for a more &#8220;private&#8221; visit.<\/p>\n<p>The elephants are brought back from the forest to their pens for the night. The smaller ones have a totally enclosed room while the bigger ones have a larger pen that is partly open to the skies. All have a cot for the keeper &nbsp;as each animal has a keeper with him 24\/7 and they need to be fed milk every 3 hours.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/naipoki11.jpg\" title=\"naipoki11.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/naipoki11.jpg\" alt=\"naipoki11.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Naipoki is very affectionate &nbsp;with hers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/naipoki12.jpg\" title=\"naipoki12.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/naipoki12.jpg\" alt=\"naipoki12.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>She gets to wear blankets to make sure she does not catch cold and, as the baby, she was the one to go to sleep first.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/naipoki13.jpg\" title=\"naipoki13.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/naipoki13.jpg\" alt=\"naipoki13.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was interesting to watch the intercation between the elephants as they are placed close to their &#8220;friends&#8221; and you could see them reach out through their fences to touch and comfort each other. I also discovered they are ticklish behind the knees and quite playful, trying to lift things with their trunks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We returned to the Sheldrick orphanage for a more &#8220;private&#8221; visit. The elephants are brought back from the forest to their pens for the night. The smaller ones have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5031,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions\/5031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}