White Elephant Condition: Rattha Nandaka healthy and happy with his 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 4 months old, with 2 feet and 11 inches in height, 4 feet and 5 inches in girth and weighs about 288 pounds.

He is living healthy and happy with his mother elephant. It is reported that the baby white elephant Rattha Nandaka has been tame since childhood and is being trained by the Human-Friendly Training system to be much tamer.