Twin elephants are newly born in Sri Lanka

At the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage in Sri Lanka, a group of twin elephants were born to a 25-year-old elephant mother named Surangi. It has been reported that both the twin and the mother are fine. Both twins were shown in a video about their mother’s legs. The last recorded twin birth of a domesticated elephant in Sri Lanka dates back to 1941, 80 years ago! Only 1% of elephant pregnancies result in twins.

Human twins are born at a rate more than three times the rate of elephant twins!

Compared to humans, twin births represent 3.21% of live births in the United States and 1.6 million twins are born each year worldwide. This means that twins in humans are three times more common than twins in elephants!

There has been a significant increase in the number of twin births in the world due to medical interventions and IVF, but it is assumed that the number of naturally occurring twin births has remained constant.

Elephant twins rarely survive to adulthood

In the Pongola Game Reserve in Pongola, South Africa, a set of twins was reported to be born in 2014. An elephant specialist, Dr. Ian White, says having twins is rare, but it is very rare for twins to live to adulthood. . The reason is that the mother must produce enough milk to feed the elephants. If you can’t, the dominant twin will not allow the other twin to access the milk.

“Against the odds, rare African elephant twins are thriving!”

Eloise, a 57-year-old elephant in Tarangire National Park in Tanzania, gave birth to twins and eight months later it was reported that they were still alive and thriving. This group of wild elephants is monitored by researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). Researchers believe that Eloise are the mothers of the herd and may be the oldest recorded elephant twin. The twin elephants were named, “Emma” and “Elon Tusk”!

”  Kenya: Amboseli National Park where adorable twin elephants grow!  “

This story is about another group of twin elephants that were doing well. They were two months old at the time of writing. What was interesting about the twins in Amboseli National Park was that they were able to notice that the twins had an older sister! The three elephants traveled together near their mother. If the mother moved away, it seemed that the older sister sat down! The twins and their older sister belong to one of 58 families of elephants out of a total of 1,600 in the park.