KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Wildlife officials are ushering in the year of the dragon by nursing an abandoned Borneo pygmy elephant calf rescued at a plantation in the east coast Lahad Datu district.
Describing the rescue as a Chinese New Year miracle, state Wildlife Department director Lauerentius Ambu said the several-weeks-old elephant was suffering from massive dehydration as well as numerous cuts and abrasions when it was pulled out from a moat yesterday.
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