Baby elephant found wandering alone in estate

Path to recovery: The rescued elephant calf resting at the Sabah Wildlife Department’s base in Tawau.

KOTA KINABALU: Wildlife rangers have taken in an elephant calf, the youngest ever found, under their care after it was spotted wandering alone at an oil palm estate in Tawau.

The calf, believed to be barely three months old and still in need of feeding by its mother, was found by estate workers at the Brumas Oil Palm area on Tuesday.