Argentina Found Last Elephant earns her freedom

On the hot day in July, Kenya elephant took their time to get out of its traveling crates and enter their new home. But after 30 minutes, an African kilozen elephant came out of the cray, shook dust, and explored her site briefly, and rode.

“You did it as a little girl,” said Juan Ignacio Haudet, the director of the biological and ecopark city of Argentina. For the first three years ago, he had covered it with a wrist, washed his whole body, or enjoying food.

The Kenya was the last elephant of the kidnapping in Argentina. He arrived at the Holy Holy Elephants, the only elephant house in South America, after a few months in the Ecopark city of Mendoza, where she lived for 40 years of capture.

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His expansion this year was developed by the growing Argentine Argentine Act and the support of animal protection groups – enlightening the nation’s animal closure.

Kenya traveling to Brazil said that he came at the risk of the Holy Group, as if he did the winner of the end of the country in Latin America.

A long journey

It was a difficult trip to come here.

Asian elephant was the first elephant in Argentina chosen. Like Kenya, she used the rest of her life, even though she stayed in La Plata Zoo. But he knocked in 2018 at the age of 52, just days before his transfer to the Holy Place of the Country of Elephants.

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That was not the only loss. Merry, an Asian elephant was kept in a private zoo that made it from a very young man on the work, died in that 50 year. And last few weeks before Kenya’s journey this year, Tamy – a 55-year-old Asia has already completed her resume process – died.

In the wild, an average of a healthy elephant is between 60 to 70 years, but that normal changes to the ears were forced to be detected. In Kenya’s case, decades spent exile slowly but only, Tomás Scinsolla, leg problems due to lack of body tissue, the disease in the cemetery.

“Winter is too cold, too hot, and the space we had was restricted and limited,” said Haudet in the Mendoza Zoo, was brought to the preservation of indigenous types of risk without keeping them in danger. “We did not have institutions or budget to provide special, powerful care and elephants needed.”

In 2008, the fruit of Leanro, a member of the current Mendoza Ecopark Council, began collecting the signature to close the zoo. As a representative of Ber Foundation, profit-profit profits scheduled all the elephants in Argentina, led to communicate with the Mendoza government and three Kenya.

Mendoza Zoo is always limited to the community since its closing. Ten years ago, more than 1,500 animals from the zoo were transferred to holy places and rescue centers in Argentina and other countries offered the remaining citizens to ensure health welfare.

Some of the zoos of several Argentina are also converted into Ecopark since 2016, although the process requires time both of you funds important.

Kenya’s arrival to join an elephant in Elephant Mara and African animals from other zoos in Argentina to Brazil’s Holy Number 202 – Patience as a struggle. His first volume on the red soil was just a moment of liberty, but tribute to those who did not do.

How trust these elephants are

Kenya’s old age elephants carry impossible mental wounds to resign, according to Scott Blais, the founder of the world sanctuary of elephants. He explains that many were victims of ‘choosing culls,’ a common practice during the 20th century, where hunters shot the helicopter.

“In some cases, they tied the leg of their dead mothers or dying mothers or animal traffickers to the world, were sentenced to life-time.

Kenya was not known for the tragedy, but she was four years old in 1984 when she was purchased and made from Mendoza following the Tierpark Berlin agreement, Zoo in Germany. He was placed in the enclosure by one calf of Pneumonia soon. Since then on, he lived alone, the only African elephant in Mendoza Zoo – a member of each type of variety.

But the veterinarian Johanna Rincón, Franz Weber Foundation gets hope for sadness. “There is a tendency to think that it is a challenge to find the trust of these animals, but they are too broken that it is easy to build,” Rincón said in the health tests of Health.

Rincón learned to translate each touch.

“Others, I only saw their qualifications; and Kenya, I learned to see him.” You have to show them that you understand that you will build a reverential relationship. “

Another obstacle to find elephants see the transport crate as a safe place. There, they get food, water, and care. Crete has a prevention program, such as SAEBELT seat, is intended to keep them free.

But they have to understand that this is temporary, although stressful, condition. Closing the crate is usually one of the night periods, as an animal can be afraid or angry, delaying the whole process.

However, the Kenya responded well: He accepted arrest and enduring a five-day trip to Brazil without great difficulty.

Blais describes the element of “a very serious and alive elephant” trained, at the beginning of training, indicating that “deep insensitive seeming to approach and contacted the people.” He says he looks at his change with surprise, or just starting.

Keny and the Future of Other Exported Elephants

Now, the Kenya connects to her neighbor, using its tissues than ever, the hills of hills, and knocks trees in their area. He takes into the mud and grass, not only to bring His happiness, but they also help improve the feet of the feet with the Exfoliinging dead skin in his body.

“We witness trauma layers begin to return,” Blais said.

Sciolla hopes that the Kenya’s story will encourage other countries. ZOOs in Chile and Mexico appear to express interest in recying in the Argentina experience with the transfer of their elephants. “Elephants should not live in exile,” said Ccilla. “That is not saved.”

Haudet, Director of Mendoza Ecopark, is often heard from disappointment zoo consumers who want their children to see these elephants.

“People should understand what they see in the zoo was not an elephant; he was just the animal’s appearance, ears and legs … but they did not behave like the elephant,” he said. “With all the little steps, the Kenyya brings happiness and shows that this is the latter elephant in exile in Argentina, and that there is no return.”