Pinnawela orphanage is situated Kegalla city, in Sabaragamuwa province in Sri Lanka. It was established 1975 by the Sri Lanka Wildlife department.This 24 acres large elephant orphanage is also breeding place for elephants, and it has been the greatest herd of elephants in captivity in the world.
There are only a few elephant orphanages in the world. Pinnawela has now become one of the bigger orphanages and is quite well known worldwide. The elephants are stall fed. There is very little food material that they can gather from the premises of the orphanage except grass. Large quantities of food are brought in daily. Jackfruit, coconut, kitul, tamarind and grass form the bulk of the food given to the elephants at Pinnawela. Each animal gets approximately 76kg of green matter a day and in addition each gets 2kg of a food mixture containing maize, rice bran, powdered gingelly seed and minerals. They have access to water twice a day from the river Maha Oya that runs by the Orphanage.
Elephants are walking to the river Ma Oya for a two-hour bath.
Baby elephants are feeding with milk
Baby elephants with their mothers
Tourists can observe elephants bathing in Ma Oya (River)
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