Join our research by sending us a small sample of the milk products you use!
Written by Dr. Laura Galante
We need your help to study the milk formulas used to feed orphaned baby Asian elephants. Our project, based at Swansea University in the UK, aims at checking if these formulas have all the right nutrients to help calves grow healthy and strong.
If your elephant care centre uses milk formula for Asian elephant calves, we’d love your help by sharing a small sample of the products you use. Every contribution can make a big difference!
Read more ~ Why this research is so important
Baby Asian elephants who lose their mothers or can’t get enough milk from her need special food to survive. Something that is as similar as possible to their mother’s milk.
But we still don’t know if milk formulas given to them contain everything they need to grow healthy and strong. Some important nutrients might be missing.
At Swansea University in the UK we are looking at different brands and types of milk formulas used in Asian elephant care centers to find out what’s inside them and how similar they are to milk from Asian elephant mothers.
With this information we can work towards improving these products and help give orphaned calves a better chance at life.
To learn more or take part by sharing a sample of the milk products you use, please contact me (the principal investigator of the study), Dr Laura Galante at laura.galante@swansea.ac.uk.
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