Photos: Zinara Rathnayake

The Three-Legged Elephant Who Can’t Live Without His Human Best Friend

At the Elephant Transit Home in Udawalwawe, Sri Lanka, most elephants receive short-term rehabilitation. For Namal, it’s home.

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5 min readApr 16, 2020

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On a sunny March morning in the southern plains of Sri Lanka, dust cakes the withering foliage surrounding Udawalwawe. This…

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Independent journalist with bylines on The New Zealand Herald, Atlas Obscura, Popular Science, Singapore Air and others. Work: https://zinara.contently.com