Over 50 handlers at the orphanage look after them. To mark the golden jubilee, the elephants were provided a special feast of fruits. Videos uploaded on the Department of National Zoological ...

Pinnawala, Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka's main elephant orphanage marked its 50th anniversary Sunday with a fruit feast for the 68 jumbos at the showpiece centre, reputedly the world's first care home for ...

Sri Lanka's main elephant orphanage marked its 50th anniversary Sunday with a fruit feast for the 68 jumbos at the showpiece centre, reputedly the world's first care home for destitute pachyderms ...

Elephants return to Sri Lanka's Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage after taking their daily bath in a river. Photo: AFP Sri Lanka's main elephant orphanage marked its 50th anniversary Sunday with a fruit ...

Sri Lanka's main elephant orphanage marked its 50th anniversary Sunday with a fruit feast for the 68 jumbos at the showpiece centre, reputedly the world's first care home for destitute pachyderms. The ...

Twenty years ago, Sri Lankan authorities opened another elephant home south of the island to care for orphaned, abandoned or injured elephants and later return them back to the wild.