Table 1. Nutritional composition of elephant’s breast milk.
| Name | Pooly | Zuze | Pooly | Tem | Mean | SD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sample weight | 40 g | 30 g | 10 g | 33 g | ||
| Sample collection time | 307 d | 19 d | 23 d | 207−208 d | ||
| Moisture (%) | 82.6 | 84.5 | 82.1 | 78.4 | 81.9 | 2.2 |
| Protein (%) | 3.5 | 3.6 | 3.1 | 3.0 | 3.3 | 0.3 |
| Fat (%) | 7.6 | 3.7 | 7.4 | 12.0 | 7.7 | 2.9 |
| Carbohydrates (%) | 5.8 | 7.8 | 7.0 | 6.2 | 6.7 | 0.8 |
| Ash (%) | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.0 |
| Energy (kcal/100 g) | 106 | 79 | 107 | 145 | 109 | |
| Lactose (%) | 3.34 | 2.68 | NT | 2.91 | 3.0 | 0.3 |
| Trisaccharides (%) | 0.00 | 1.25 | NT | 0.55 | 0.6 | 0.6 |
| Other saccharides (%) | 4.42 | 3.48 | NT | 2.67 | 3.5 | 0.9 |
General nutritional assay data and refractory index HPLC saccharide data (%) are shown. d: days after delivery, SD: standard deviation; energy values were calculated using the Atwater method, NT: not tested.