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Elephant Diaries

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Wildlife series following the lives of a group of orphaned elephants in Kenya.

Wildlife series following the lives of a group of orphaned African bush elephants at a sanctuary in Kenya as they face some of the biggest challenges of their lives.

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Elephant Diaries: Series 2

Michaela Strachan

Jonathan Scott

Lucinda Axelsson

Sara Ford

Simon Nash

Elephant Diaries: Series 2: Episode 4

Episode 4

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One of the elephants struggles with painful joints and a possible heart condition.

Series about orphaned baby elephants at the David Shelrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya. Jonathan is in Tsavo, where an orphan is struggling with debilitating painful joints.

Jonathan Scott is in Tsavo where one of the older orphans, Mweiga, is struggling with debilitating painful joints and a possible heart condition. The keepers are trying her on a new cocktail of vitamins and supplements, but will her medicine work? 

At the Nairobi nursery, it is time for the mini-matriarch Lualeni to leave her beloved Makena and join the older orphans at the Ithumba release site. But Lualeni does not want to go. Michaela Strachan follows the heart-rending separation. And back in Tsavo, one of the older orphans goes missing.

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Following another emotional year in the lives of a unique group of orphaned elephants.

Jonathan Scott and Michaela Strachan follow another emotional year in the lives of a unique group of orphaned African elephants at a sanctuary in Kenya.

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