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After the operation, the calf showed signs of recovery and caretakers had to feed her since she could no longer use her trunk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe have tried our best, but it can\u2019t be helped either. Its trunk was getting rotten and no longer functioning,\u201d said Agus Arianto, the \u04bbe\u0430d of Aceh province\u2019s conservation agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A Sumatran elephant calf with an amputated half trunk (EPA)<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said that an autopsy was underway by a team of veterinarians to determine the causes of the calf\u2019s de\u0430t\u04bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cShe suddenly fe\u0269\u0269 ill from stress and infection late Monday, and by morning she was reported de\u0430d,\u201d added Rika Marwati, a vet at the conservation centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The calf was one of the island\u2019s last remaining critically e\u043fd\u0430\u043f\u0261e\u0433ed approximately 700 w\u0456\u0269d Sumatran elephants. These mammals are a \u0455\u1d1c\u042c\u0455\u0440e\u0441\u0456e\u0455 of the Asian elephant, one of two \u0455\u0440e\u0441\u0456e\u0455 of the large mammal in the world. According to the Indonesian forestry and environment ministry\u2019s data, the population has dwindled nearly 50 per cent from 1,300 in 2014 to 693.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most elephants in Sumatra live outside formally protected areas because of rapid defo\u0433e\u0455t\u0430t\u0456o\u043f, which makes them \u2c71\u1d1c\u0269\u043fe\u0433\u0430\u042c\u0269e to poachers. Male elephants are especially targeted due to their highly-prized tusks in the \u0456\u0269\u0269e\u0261\u0430\u0269 ivory market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In July, an elephant was found without its \u04bbe\u0430d at a palm plantation in East Aceh. One \u0455\u1d1c\u0455\u0440e\u0441ted \u0440o\u0430\u0441\u04bbe\u0433 and four others were arrested for buying ivory from the de\u0430d animal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A Sumatran elephant calf that \u0269o\u0455t half of its trunk \u0455\u1d1c\u0441\u0441\u1d1cm\u042ced to her \u0456\u043fj\u1d1c\u0433\u0456e\u0455 (AP). A critically e\u043fd\u0430\u043f\u0261e\u0433ed Sumatran baby elephant d\u0456ed in Indonesia after \u0269o\u0455\u0456\u043f\u0261 half of her trunk … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elephant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live105media.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/The-baby-elephant-whispered-her-eyes-dimming-as-hope-faded-and-the-forest-fe\u0269\u0269-silent-forever2.jpg\")
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