Baby elephant takes a big step forward for Night Safari

Singapore: He's just five-months-old but like most babies, is cute and very much attached to mum, even as he steps into the limelight at the Night Safari.

Born on 23 November 2010, the park’s first baby elephant in nine years makes his first public appearance at the April launch of an exhibit on the Asian elephant, whose population in the wild is dwindling fast. It's estimated that there are now only some 30,000 to 50,000 left in the forests of India, Sri Lanka, Laos, Myanmar, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia.

Now 125cm tall and weighing a hefty 318 kg, 'Nila Utama' has two bothers raised by his mother, 'Sang Raja' (Noble One) born in 1999 and 'Sang Wira' (Brave One) born in 2001.

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