Year of rescue: 2010
Age at the time of rescue: 35 years old
Sex: Female
Personality traits: Playful
Recognisable features: One of the tallest elephants under our care; lower set eyes
Present health condition: Healthy; frequent foot baths
Facility: Elephant Conservation and Care Centre
Favourite food: Cabbage and sugarcanes
Closest to: Phoolkali and Emma
Favourite activities: Loves long walks with along the riverside and taking sugarcanes out of her enrichment feeder
Special needs: Medicated footbaths for the healing of her footpad abscesses; dietary supplements with immunoboosters given in the cooked concentrate fed to her daily
Background history: Maya was rescued from a circus in 2010 where she lived an abusive life of a performing elephant. Often made to stand on her two legs or made to “dance” at the whip of a stick, Maya spent her life entertaining people. When Maya was brought to Wildlife SOS for lifelong care, she was extremely frail, in pain and displayed stereotypical behaviour which showed her stress. | READ MORE ABOUT MAYA
