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Article: IF THEY COULD TALK, THEY'D SAY 'MAMA'
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 1, 1988
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NAIROBI, Kenya - Enos Okode couldn't get any closer to his
animals if he grew tusks.
"We call them by their names, and we know them," he said of
the rhinoceroses, elephants and elands at the animal orphanage near
Nairobi National Park, where he works 24 hours a day.
"We are their mothers. We talk with them. We tell them to
sleep, they sleep. Smile, they smile. All the time, day or night."
Okode is one of several animal keepers here, and the affection
he has for his charges is deep.
They include Olmeg, a 19-month-old elephant orphaned at
Maralal Game Sanctuary at the age of 3 weeks. Found standing beside
his mother, who had been slaughtered by poachers for her ivory
tusks, Olmeg ...