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A sea otter pup named Tofino, rescued in June and estimated to be two to three months old, plays with a toy at the Marine Mammal Rescue Center

Photograph: Darryl Dyck/AP

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Did some volunteer work with some buns. They are so sweet.

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Elephants, Thailand’s national animal, have seen their wild population decline in recent decades due to threats from tourism, logging, poaching, and human encroachment on elephant habitats.

Experts estimate the wild elephant population in Thailand has dwindled to 3,000-4,000, a decline from more than 100,000 at the beginning of the 20th century.

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We haven't seen flooding at Elephant Nature Park this bad this since 2022. From our partner, Lek Chailert 10/3/24: "Early this morning, a s

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Check out the Stardust Bitty Rescue and Adoption community on Discord - hang out with 3 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

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A difficult rescue: Mojito’s story

This gorgeous lion here is Mojito. He’s two years old and he was rescued by AAP Primadomus from a Spanish circus just a few months after being born where he and Tintín, his best friend, were used as photo props for the audience.

Mojito was born with an esophagus problem that makes him unable to eat any piece of meat bigger than a coin. He obviously wouldn’t have survived in the wild but thanks to an amazing caregiver team he’s been given an opportunity to have a decent life in a rescue center with his enclosure partners Tintín and Anthares.

Nowadays Mojito has to get 3.1 kilos of meat almost every day, that’s a lot of food to prepare considering it has to be in very small pieces.

Preparing Mojito’s meat takes almost as long as the rest of the big cat’s food because it’s very tricky to find good pieces that are easy to cut, remove most of the fat, and stay concentrated so the bits are not too big or too small.

Feeding has similar complications, where feeding most of the big cats is just leaving the meat in their outside enclosure or give it to them through their feeding boxes in their inside enclosures, giving the food to Mojito is a slow process. You have to be aware of him all the time, wait until he finishes swallowing, keep a good speed rate so he doesn’t get too nervous, and most importantly make sure he doesn’t choke or have any kind of problem.

Another delicate situation is that he’s obviously not allowed to have any kind of enrichment he can break and eat, or that he can’t be fed in the same place as Tintín and Anthares so he doesn’t swallow any of their food or bones. That means that when his friends are finished eating we also have to make sure that there are no bones or food rests in the enclosure before giving all of them access outside.

He’s definitely a tricky and time consuming animal to look after but this is actually one of the things I loved the most about starting to work in this rescue center, how devoted they are to help animals even if some of them are a difficult and challenging rescue.

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