David sheldrick is a worldclass conservation figure and the premier authority on the successful raising of milkdependent infant elephant and rhino orphans david sheldricks animal orphanage can be only be visited for an hour daily between 11am and noon during this hour the baby elephants are brought out to play and to feed the giraffe centre an elevated treetop area established by jock and betty leslie melville in 1979 as a sanctuary for the rare rothschild giraffe the centre has a feedi