COLOMBO, Jan 13 (NNN-XINHUA) – Sri Lanka’s wildlife officials, yesterday said, they named a pair of rare twin baby elephants, born four months ago, as Disa and Sajjana, at a simple ceremony, held in the presence of the mother elephant.
The pair of twin baby elephants were born at the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage, outside the central hills of Kandy, in the Central Province, on Aug 30 last year.
Both the baby elephants are male.
A spokesman from the orphanage said, the twin elephants were born to a female elephant named Surangi.
A senior official of the Wildlife Department said, the twin elephants’ birth was the first such birth in Sri Lanka’s history, among the country’s registered domesticated elephants.
Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage is a popular tourist attraction, with the largest herd of captive elephants in the world.– NNN-XINHUA
