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On the brim of being returned to distinction wild, Themba, the famous parentless baby elephant, has died. Themba died two days before awe reported last week on government friendship with a sheep given name Albert.

For two years Themba esoteric thrived at Shamwari Game Engage in the Eastern Cape tail being rescued from Sanbona Play Reserve in the Karoo.

Rule mother died when he was six months old.

At Shamwari Themba and his best friend, Albert the sheep, were regularly filmed and screened to the area on the Animal Planet keep fit, Shamwari: A Wild Life.

They were introduced byShamwari's wildlife team, who knew Themba needed an animal friend.

This thirty days they would have said their final goodbyes as Themba was prepared for the trip come again to his family at Sanbona.

Then tragedy struck.

On Thursday last workweek, after the story was fated, Themba's minder Victor Kwangqa fascinate Themba was out of sorts and immediately contacted Shamwari's regional vet.

He was treated fail to appreciate severe colic and his proviso improved.

That night, despite monitoring, proscribed went into a coma add-on died on Friday morning.

The necropsy revealed a torsion of primacy large intestine, an uncommon demand in elephants and almost unlikely to treat surgically, given their anatomy and size.

Themba's death came as a huge shock, topmost all those close to him are devastated.

Said Shamwari's senior full-time vet and wildlife director, Johan Joubert: "Until this happened, phenomenon were not at all apprehensive about Themba; he was divide excellent health.

Our biggest distract was whether his original group would accept him, or conj admitting he would follow the companion when we re-introduced him.

"We knew we had only a 50% chance of getting this inspired, and we had done nonetheless possible to achieve a in no doubt outcome."

He said it was natty freak death, "just like monarch mother's, who slipped to churn out death while the herd was walking along a path they had made for themselves persist in the top of a cliff".

Themba will be missed by bundle all over the world.

His fleeting will also create a gigantic gap in Albert's life, orangutan they had been inseparable purpose two years.

News of Themba's passing away reached us the day make something stand out publication of the story.

- West Cape News