CBS' 60 Minutes correspondent Bob Simon traveled to Kenya to learn more about elephants at a special orphanage.
Orphaned elephants are shown on a walk to the bush in Tsavo National Park in September 2003.
Natumi takes the lead in this photo taken on March 9, 2002. She and other rescued elephants are cared for at the orphanage run by the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in East Africa.
Kenya's elephant population has shrunk considerably during the last 30 years, largely due to poachers. A special orphanage run by the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in East Africa is giving young elephants, like this one, a new lease on life.
Born in Kenya, Dr. Daphne Sheldrick lived and worked alongside her late husband, David, the famous founder and warden of Kenya's giant Tsavo National Park. During that time she raised and rehabilitated back into the wild orphans from many different wild species. She has successfully hand-reared more than 70 newborn elephant orphans, some from just hours old, the first time this has ever been achieved.
Natumi is one of the orphaned elephants cared for at Tsavo National Park, Kenya's largest wildlife refuge, which has the country's single largest population of elephants. The orphanage is run by the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust.
Natumi, now 7, gives her keeper, Patrick, a kiss at the orphanage run by the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in East Africa. Natumi arrived at the orphanage when she was about six weeks old after her mother and two other elephants in their herd were shot by presidential bodyguards in Nanyuki.
The orphanage, run by the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, has everything the elephants could want. Each one gets its own keeper and private room. There's also a communal bath, playground and dining area.
Elephants at the orphanage run by the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya.
Orphaned elephants return from a mud bath at Tsavo National park in Kenya. Sixty-eight elephants have been fostered there since its inception almost 30 years ago.