Royal White Elephant: Baby elephant turns five months

The royal white baby elephant, Rattha Nandaka, has now turned five-month-old and his height becomes 3 feet 1 inch with four feet 7 inches in girth and 330 pounds.

A 33-year-old female elephant called Zar Nan Hla kept by the Myanma Timber Enterprise in Taungup Township of Rakhine State has given birth to a white male elephant on 23rd July 2022. The baby elephant is two feet and five inches in height, three feet and one inch in girth with its birth weight of about 180 pounds.

Out of eight characteristics of the white elephants, the baby white elephant meets 7 unique features 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.

He lives together with his mother happily at the Royal White Elephant Hall in Nay Pyi Taw. As the royal white elephant “RahtaNandaka” has been tame with people since he was young, he is being trained by the Human and Friendly system to become more familiar.