Lonely no more: Kaavan the elephant makes new friend

Oddar Meanchey, Cambodia (AFP) Dec 1, 2020

It was his first contact with another elephant in eight years. Reaching out with his trunk, Kaavan tentatively greeted a fellow inhabitant of the Cambodian sanctuary where he is beginning his new life after being rescued from grim conditions in a Pakistani zoo. The 36-year-old bull elephant - dubbed the "world's loneliest" - was the sole Asian elephant at Islamabad's dilapidated zoo.