Born to Be Wild (2011) Movie Script
BY: M.Sheva
This story is like a fairytale
Except it's entirely true
And we don't know yet how it will end
But it begins a long time ago
In a land far away, with not one
but two ...
Real life fairy god mother
Daphne Sheldrick was born in kenya
And lived with her family
in Tsavo National Park
When poachers killed elephants
for their ivory tusks
Daphne adopted their orphaned
babies
Halfway around the world
In the jungles of Borneo
wild orangutans
But as loggers cut down the rainforest
and drove orangutans out
left behind
Both women made the same promise
to the animals in their care
To raise them only as long as they
needed help
And to prepare them to one day
return to the wild
BORN TO BE WILD
It's been over 50 years since Daphne Sheldrick
first adopted orphaned elephants
Sities come
She's created a safe haven for them
at a very special nursery just outside Nairobi
About three and a half months?
What's the umbilicus like ?
These little orphans, have been rescued
from all over Kenya
They may look big
but they're just little children
The biggest ones still babies themselves
They instinctively take care of little Sities
who's just 3 months old
Daphne established this nursery after
her husband David passed away
It's a place for the orphans to heal
physically and emotionally
The elephants helped me to turn
a page in my life
And I try to do the same for them
We've rescued over 200 baby elephants
Most have lived, but others haven't
Before Daphne, nobody had ever successfully
raised an infant elephant
It took me 28 years of hard work
Before I finally developed a milk formula
that would help them grow up big and strong
Kilaguni is almost 2 now
His mother was killed by poachers
He stayed by her side
And when hyenas came in the night
they attacked him, and bit off his tail
Good boy
But he is healed and happy now
and a favourite of the others
He doesn't like a noise, eh?
Without their mothers to provide shade
Little elephants need lots of sunscreen
so their ears don't get burnt
They're just like our own children
lovable one moment, naughty the next
Thousands of miles away in Indonesia
to save orphaned orangutans
Over 300 of them live here, at her care center
on the island of Borneo
All these orangutans are here
for one reason
Their mothers have been killed
and their forest home cut down
These are the lucky ones, who survived
They are so fragile as infants
Like our own kids, they need lots of love
and attention
I've studied wild orangutans for 40 years
And we use that knowledge to stimulate
the different stages of orangutan development
With humans acting as surrogate mothers
These orangutans are the same age
as human toddlers
They are too immature to play in the
real jungle
But a jungle gym helps them learn the skills
they will eventually need in the wild
Young orangutans still need milk
And lots of it
Orangutans here are under human care
But not control
They need to retain their wildness
These orphans grow up so differently
than wild orangutans
But as long as they feel loved, they will have
the confidence they need later in life
I often wonder, if they miss the touch
of their real mother
Or do they even remember her at all
Family is the most important part
They live in herds, so it takes a team of people
People always ask me
how we choose the keepers?
The truth is, the elephants do
They can read your heart
And they understand how you
genuinely feel about them
Edwin our head keeper, loves the elephants
And they love him
Elephants won't live unless they are happy
We keep them as happy as possible
entertaining them and playing little games
When a little elephant starts to play
You know they're going to win
Come, sities, come, come
Orangutans are happiest at play
in the jungle
And this group is now old enough to explore
the forest that surrounds the care center
These trees bear the same fruits
they will find in the rainforest
This is Sanaga
He knows all the best spots to find fruit
like wild durian, a stinky but delicious treat
All orangutans have their own personality
Ombray, is a real comedian
I'll never forget Ombray's rescue
We drove for hours through a giant
palm oil plantation
It was once pristine rainforest
and home to Ombrey's mother
She was killed and he was captured
and kept as a pet
But orangutans are not meant to be pets
My son Fred, has a special touch
with orangutans
Ombrey refused to get in our truck
He had his heart set on another ride
Young orangutans cling to their
mothers for dear life
So holding on tight, is in their blood
At the end of a long day
The elephants return home, escorted
- I saw a spring hare
- a spring hare?
- yeah, It was 2 feet and it had a tail that long
- Really, what, was it down there?
I've cared for animals as big as elephants
And as small as this little hyrax
And I've loved them all the same
In the wild, baby elephants
would never be left alone
So here, the keepers always stay
with them
Even through the night
Like all new orphans
Sities has difficulty sleeping
Elephants do have an incredible memory
But sometimes what they remember
is awfully sad
Sleep well, Sities
Camp Leakey, is deep in the jungles
of Tanjung Puting National Park
Home to the largest population of wild
orangutans left in the world
And raised orphan orangutans
in the surrounding forest
They're wild now
But sometimes come back to Camp Leakey
to visit
Where humans and great apes
are truly equal
I've had this feeling ever since
I was very young
The tropical rain forest represents
the original Garden of Eden
Our ancestors left the Garden
But orangutans never did
They maintained a childlike innocence
that we humans lost ...
A long, long time ago
Many of the orangutans released here
have succeeded in the wild
And are now mothers and grandmothers
themselves
Tom is the dominate male in the area
He weighs over 300 pounds
And is the wild- born son of an orangutan
Like the orangutans, I started my own
family at Camp Leakey
Our children played together
and grew up together
I came to Borneo looking for animals
to study
Don't steal my coffee
I bet you will
Hi Siswi
Bye
than raise rescued animals
Their organizations help protect
the national parks
where their orphans will eventually live
Tsavo National Park is home to the largest
population of elephants in Kenya
The old bulls are the scouts and guardians
of the elephant herds
They live apart from the females
and their young
- Hello, hello mam Daphne?
- Yes?
A patrol has spotted something wrong
A baby elephant among a group of bulls
His mother has been poached
He needs milk to survive, but they
can't feed him
If he's not rescued soon, this little
elephant will die
Well, we will mobilize a rescue team and a plane
We will be ready in the nursery
The rangers must be bold to drive
the bulls off
They can easily flip over a truck
A female herd would defend
the baby to the end
But the bulls know he doesn't belong
Most orphans come in extremely traumatized
This elephant has seen his family
killed by human beings
So he sees us as the enemy
He's terrified and doesn't understand
that we want to help
By morning, the new orphan has a name
Kandecha
getting the nourishment he needs to survive
is about to say goodbye
Orangutans typically leave their mothers
when they're 7 or 8 years old
As the orphans reach that age ...
are ready to thrive on their own
They are solitary so they must take
care of themselves
Ombrey will be a great wild orangutan
Sanaga and Pushka are building
their own nests
and I feel they no longer need us
Before being cleared to join
the wild population
all orangutans get a thorough check-up
Sanaga is healthy, and ready to go home
So is Kilaguni
other elephants
As with many big changes in life
The first step can be the hardest
one to take
Kilaguni, come, come, c'mon
A remote compound in the middle of Tsavo will be
the elephants home for the next few years
until they no longer need human help
What happens next is truly astounding
Dozens of ex-orphans ...
All living wild now, come from many
miles away
To greet the babies
Elephants have amazing powers of perception
and communication
It's one of the great mysteries
of the natural world
The orphans will always love their
human family
But in time, these older elephants
will take over ...
And lead them into the elephant kingdom
Kilaguni and the others will be milk
dependent for 3 more years
from the lions outside
Their journey to freedom takes Sanaga
and Pushka deeper and deeper ...
Into Tanjung Puting National Park
where one of the last pockets of orangutan
habitat still remains
With every step, I feel a flood of mixed
emotions
I'm happy
But I'm also worried
be there to protect them
Their long detour through the human world
is about to end
There you go, There you go Pushka
You can go, c'mon, you can go
That's a good vine
But this is their destiny
They were born to be wild
On their first day in Tsavo
The wild ex-orphans lead Kilaguni
and his friends to a waterhole
Where they revel in the freedom
of a wild life
The big elephants took this step
many years ago
They know that Kilaguni is too young
to join them now
They've come to say ...
You're part of our family
You're one of us, and we love you
Our job is almost done now
how to be wild elephants again
The animals in this story, are like us
in so many ways
They want to grow up free
And raise their families in a world
And if we let them disappear from
this Earth ...
Then a part of us will disappear too
These orphans have been given
a second chance at life
ever after ...
Depends on us
By: M.Sheva
This story is like a fairytale
Except it's entirely true
And we don't know yet how it will end
But it begins a long time ago
In a land far away, with not one
but two ...
Real life fairy god mother
Daphne Sheldrick was born in kenya
And lived with her family
in Tsavo National Park
When poachers killed elephants
for their ivory tusks
Daphne adopted their orphaned
babies
Halfway around the world
In the jungles of Borneo
wild orangutans
But as loggers cut down the rainforest
and drove orangutans out
left behind
Both women made the same promise
to the animals in their care
To raise them only as long as they
needed help
And to prepare them to one day
return to the wild
BORN TO BE WILD
It's been over 50 years since Daphne Sheldrick
first adopted orphaned elephants
Sities come
She's created a safe haven for them
at a very special nursery just outside Nairobi
About three and a half months?
What's the umbilicus like ?
These little orphans, have been rescued
from all over Kenya
They may look big
but they're just little children
The biggest ones still babies themselves
They instinctively take care of little Sities
who's just 3 months old
Daphne established this nursery after
her husband David passed away
It's a place for the orphans to heal
physically and emotionally
The elephants helped me to turn
a page in my life
And I try to do the same for them
We've rescued over 200 baby elephants
Most have lived, but others haven't
Before Daphne, nobody had ever successfully
raised an infant elephant
It took me 28 years of hard work
Before I finally developed a milk formula
that would help them grow up big and strong
Kilaguni is almost 2 now
His mother was killed by poachers
He stayed by her side
And when hyenas came in the night
they attacked him, and bit off his tail
Good boy
But he is healed and happy now
and a favourite of the others
He doesn't like a noise, eh?
Without their mothers to provide shade
Little elephants need lots of sunscreen
so their ears don't get burnt
They're just like our own children
lovable one moment, naughty the next
Thousands of miles away in Indonesia
to save orphaned orangutans
Over 300 of them live here, at her care center
on the island of Borneo
All these orangutans are here
for one reason
Their mothers have been killed
and their forest home cut down
These are the lucky ones, who survived
They are so fragile as infants
Like our own kids, they need lots of love
and attention
I've studied wild orangutans for 40 years
And we use that knowledge to stimulate
the different stages of orangutan development
With humans acting as surrogate mothers
These orangutans are the same age
as human toddlers
They are too immature to play in the
real jungle
But a jungle gym helps them learn the skills
they will eventually need in the wild
Young orangutans still need milk
And lots of it
Orangutans here are under human care
But not control
They need to retain their wildness
These orphans grow up so differently
than wild orangutans
But as long as they feel loved, they will have
the confidence they need later in life
I often wonder, if they miss the touch
of their real mother
Or do they even remember her at all
Family is the most important part
They live in herds, so it takes a team of people
People always ask me
how we choose the keepers?
The truth is, the elephants do
They can read your heart
And they understand how you
genuinely feel about them
Edwin our head keeper, loves the elephants
And they love him
Elephants won't live unless they are happy
We keep them as happy as possible
entertaining them and playing little games
When a little elephant starts to play
You know they're going to win
Come, sities, come, come
Orangutans are happiest at play
in the jungle
And this group is now old enough to explore
the forest that surrounds the care center
These trees bear the same fruits
they will find in the rainforest
This is Sanaga
He knows all the best spots to find fruit
like wild durian, a stinky but delicious treat
All orangutans have their own personality
Ombray, is a real comedian
I'll never forget Ombray's rescue
We drove for hours through a giant
palm oil plantation
It was once pristine rainforest
and home to Ombrey's mother
She was killed and he was captured
and kept as a pet
But orangutans are not meant to be pets
My son Fred, has a special touch
with orangutans
Ombrey refused to get in our truck
He had his heart set on another ride
Young orangutans cling to their
mothers for dear life
So holding on tight, is in their blood
At the end of a long day
The elephants return home, escorted
- I saw a spring hare
- a spring hare?
- yeah, It was 2 feet and it had a tail that long
- Really, what, was it down there?
I've cared for animals as big as elephants
And as small as this little hyrax
And I've loved them all the same
In the wild, baby elephants
would never be left alone
So here, the keepers always stay
with them
Even through the night
Like all new orphans
Sities has difficulty sleeping
Elephants do have an incredible memory
But sometimes what they remember
is awfully sad
Sleep well, Sities
Camp Leakey, is deep in the jungles
of Tanjung Puting National Park
Home to the largest population of wild
orangutans left in the world
And raised orphan orangutans
in the surrounding forest
They're wild now
But sometimes come back to Camp Leakey
to visit
Where humans and great apes
are truly equal
I've had this feeling ever since
I was very young
The tropical rain forest represents
the original Garden of Eden
Our ancestors left the Garden
But orangutans never did
They maintained a childlike innocence
that we humans lost ...
A long, long time ago
Many of the orangutans released here
have succeeded in the wild
And are now mothers and grandmothers
themselves
Tom is the dominate male in the area
He weighs over 300 pounds
And is the wild- born son of an orangutan
Like the orangutans, I started my own
family at Camp Leakey
Our children played together
and grew up together
I came to Borneo looking for animals
to study
Don't steal my coffee
I bet you will
Hi Siswi
Bye
than raise rescued animals
Their organizations help protect
the national parks
where their orphans will eventually live
Tsavo National Park is home to the largest
population of elephants in Kenya
The old bulls are the scouts and guardians
of the elephant herds
They live apart from the females
and their young
- Hello, hello mam Daphne?
- Yes?
A patrol has spotted something wrong
A baby elephant among a group of bulls
His mother has been poached
He needs milk to survive, but they
can't feed him
If he's not rescued soon, this little
elephant will die
Well, we will mobilize a rescue team and a plane
We will be ready in the nursery
The rangers must be bold to drive
the bulls off
They can easily flip over a truck
A female herd would defend
the baby to the end
But the bulls know he doesn't belong
Most orphans come in extremely traumatized
This elephant has seen his family
killed by human beings
So he sees us as the enemy
He's terrified and doesn't understand
that we want to help
By morning, the new orphan has a name
Kandecha
getting the nourishment he needs to survive
is about to say goodbye
Orangutans typically leave their mothers
when they're 7 or 8 years old
As the orphans reach that age ...
are ready to thrive on their own
They are solitary so they must take
care of themselves
Ombrey will be a great wild orangutan
Sanaga and Pushka are building
their own nests
and I feel they no longer need us
Before being cleared to join
the wild population
all orangutans get a thorough check-up
Sanaga is healthy, and ready to go home
So is Kilaguni
other elephants
As with many big changes in life
The first step can be the hardest
one to take
Kilaguni, come, come, c'mon
A remote compound in the middle of Tsavo will be
the elephants home for the next few years
until they no longer need human help
What happens next is truly astounding
Dozens of ex-orphans ...
All living wild now, come from many
miles away
To greet the babies
Elephants have amazing powers of perception
and communication
It's one of the great mysteries
of the natural world
The orphans will always love their
human family
But in time, these older elephants
will take over ...
And lead them into the elephant kingdom
Kilaguni and the others will be milk
dependent for 3 more years
from the lions outside
Their journey to freedom takes Sanaga
and Pushka deeper and deeper ...
Into Tanjung Puting National Park
where one of the last pockets of orangutan
habitat still remains
With every step, I feel a flood of mixed
emotions
I'm happy
But I'm also worried
be there to protect them
Their long detour through the human world
is about to end
There you go, There you go Pushka
You can go, c'mon, you can go
That's a good vine
But this is their destiny
They were born to be wild
On their first day in Tsavo
The wild ex-orphans lead Kilaguni
and his friends to a waterhole
Where they revel in the freedom
of a wild life
The big elephants took this step
many years ago
They know that Kilaguni is too young
to join them now
They've come to say ...
You're part of our family
You're one of us, and we love you
Our job is almost done now
how to be wild elephants again
The animals in this story, are like us
in so many ways
They want to grow up free
And raise their families in a world
And if we let them disappear from
this Earth ...
Then a part of us will disappear too
These orphans have been given
a second chance at life
ever after ...
Depends on us
By: M.Sheva