Stranded elephant calf to be in captive care for now

In safe hands: Veterinarians providing treatment to the elephant calf that strayed from its mother near a plantation in Tawau.

KOTA KINABALU: Wildlife veterinarians looking after a stranded week-old Borneo pygmy elephant at a plantation in Tawau have decided to bring it into captive care to treat severe infections.

The Wildlife Rescue Unit team is in the process of transporting the female calf to the Borneo Elephant Sanctuary in Kinaba­tangan for further treatment.