Royal White Elephant : “Rahta Nandaka” turns 8 and half months old

A royal white elephant “Rahta Nandaka” turns eight and half months old on Friday. His height becomes 3 feet and 4 inches, 6 feet in girth and about 450 pounds. “Rahta Nandaka” was born on 23rd July 2022 by a 33-year-old female elephant called Zar Nan Hla kept by the Myanma Timber Enterprise in Taungup Township of Rakhine State.

During his birth, the baby elephant is two feet and five inches in height, three feet and one inch in girth with about 180 pounds. The white elephant possesses 7 out of eight characteristics of the white elephants, such as having pearl-coloured eyes, plantain branch-shaped back, white hair, a distinctive tail, auspicious plot signs on the skin, reddish-brown or pinkish skin, five claws on the front legs and four on the back legs and big ears.

At present, he lives together with his mother happily at Royal White Elephant Hall in Nay Pyi Taw. He is a white elephant who has been tamed with people since he was young. Currently, Peace Human and Elephant Interaction Training system is being used to train the white elephant for achieving better interaction with humans.