Sand painting captures the story of elephant baby and “elephant dad”

Peng Weiwei, policeman in Anning police station, central Yunnan’s Kunming City, painted the story of "goat girl" and "elephant dad" with exquisite sand, showing the touching moments of human and elephants.

In August 2015, a newly born Asian elephant wandered into a villager's home in Ganglangba Village, Simao District, south Yunnan’s Pu 'er City. After examination, villagers found that the baby elephant had serious infection, wound suppuration and other diseases.

Located in the Wild Elephant Valley of Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve, the Asian Elephant Breeding and Rescue Center brought the baby elephant back for treatment.

As the baby elephant was born in the year of the goat, and she drank goat milk to supplement nutrition, she was named "Yang Niu" in Chinese, which means “goat girl”.

The Asian Elephant Breeding and Rescue Center has rescued 24 Asian elephants. In the center, 22 professional Asian elephant nurses called "elephant dads" take good care of elephants every day.

They help Asian elephants to get wild survival training so that elephants will gradually adapt to the wild environment and return to the forest as soon as possible.

Reporting by Ding Ning and Peng Weiwei (Xinhua Net); Trans-editing by Mo Yingyi