White Elephant Condition: ‘Rattha Nandaka’ Happy and Healthy with Mother

A white male elephant was born at 6:30 am on the 23rd of July 2022 by the 33-year-old female elephant called Zar Nan Hla from the Myanma Timber Enterprise in Taungup Township of Rakhine State.

The baby elephant was two feet and five inches in height, three feet and one inch in girth and weighed 180 pounds at birth. The title of the baby elephant is Rattha Nandaka. The newly-born white elephant has pearl-coloured eyes, a 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, four claws on the back legs and big ears.

These features conform to seven out of eight characteristics of white elephant. The baby white elephant Rattha Nandaka is now 1 year and 1 month old with 3 feet and 10 inches in height, 6 feet and 5 inches in girth and 726 pounds in weight.

He is living healthy and happy with his mother elephant at the Yadana white elephant hall in Nay Pyi Taw. It is reported that the baby white elephant Rattha Nandaka has been tame since childhood and is being trained with the “Peace Human and Elephant Interaction Training” system to be much tamer.