Mother elephant and twin two baby elephants

The births in Minneriya is not the first time that twin calves were born in South Asia. Twin births have been recorded in Nepal and India. Although there are no known records of twin elephant calf births in the wild, there have been several accounts of twin elephant calves who have been bred in captivity. Twin elephant births in South Asia have been reported in the region, for example in India here in 2017 and here in 1971. Nepal recorded the birth of twin elephant calves in 2008, according to the Asian Elephant Specialist Group, an India-based global conservation group.