An unusual convoy approached Argentina’s lush border with Brazil on Tuesday, after it has dismissed through busy roads. Within a specialized iron crate attached to truck and bordered minibuses full of karanje and veterinarians were puppies, women African Elephant.
She goes into a better life after spending more than 30 years as the last elephant a Buenos Aires Zoo that are often criticized for his terms before turning into nature preserved nine years ago.
Pupna (pronounced Pooh’-Piss in Spanish) Monday has accelerated its effort at 2,700 kilometers (1,670 miles), from the trendy neighborhood of Palermo capital of Argentina Buenos Aires to the Amazon rainforest Mato Grosso State in Brazil.
3.5-tone Pachyderm is expected to arrive in his new home in the Lacon Elephon, the first refuge for elephants in Latin America, later this week – travel depending on traffic, weather and customs.
From the late Tuesday Puppy crossed the verdant north Argentine Province of Misiones, near the border with Brazil.
Standing upright in its crate during rough times, puppies slept and feeds with vegetables, fruit, grass and vitamin supplements. Brazilian park staff and Argentine executives follow her condition during pre-scheduled breaks and via cameras inside the crate.
It took me a few months to prepare a damaging for so many hours of prison.
“She is a real journey flawless,” María José Catanzariti, Veterinary and Operational Manager in the preservation of Buenos Aires. “Sometimes in the first 24 hours of that animal don’t want to eat, but the puppy keeps eating.”
Pupny is the latest in a series of over 1,000 wild animals – elephants, as well as lions, tigers, bears, that Buenos Aires sent festive abroad from their conversion from Ramshackle City in a place to protect species.
Without closing, the animals build new lives in greener pastures. Orangutan named Sandra traded his limited, lonely existence in Argentine preserved in 2019. years for more roaming space and 22 new friends from their own species in the center for large monkeys in Wauchuli, Florida.
Already enjoying Brazil the littering shrine are five asian elephants – including MaraThe former circus elephant that has also ended in Argentina Reserve, and five years ago, he made the same path of the highway in the refuge, where now the bark for at least 10 kilometers (6 miles) a day.
Brazilian elephant rehabilitation offers additional space to adapt to life in the wild, regain the behavior of intrinsic to their species and hang out with others after so many years often spend insulated and alone.
Since the puppies can only be a brotherhood with other African elephants, it will be the adapping itself to its new habitat before the expected arrival of the African elephant called Kenia.
From the Zoo in the town of Mendoza, West Argentina, with the history of similar bad conditions, Kenia now passes through training before traveling to multiple refuge, which evokes the elephant’s natural home.