by Buenos Aires, Argentina (AP)-A unusual convoy approached Brazil on Tuesday Argentina’s lavish border after having dragged traffic-naked roads for hours. Pupy, an African elephant, was in the specialized iron box that was strapped to a truck and flanked by vans full of caretaker and veterinarians.
She goes to a better life after she spent more than 30 years in captivity than the last elephant of a Buenos Aires -Zoo, which was often criticized for his conditions before it was transformed into a nature reserve nine years ago.
Pupy (extremely Pooh’-Pee in Spanish) began on Monday on her tedious journey of 2,700 kilometers (1,670 miles), from the trendy neighborhood of Palermo in Argentina’s fundamental capital from Buenos Aires to the Amazon rain forests of the state of Mato Grosso in Brazil.
The 3.5-ton Pachyderm is expected to be in its new home in the Elephant Sanctuary Brazil, the first refuge for elephants in Latin America, later that depends on this week-a journey that depends on traffic, weather conditions and customs stops.
Until late Tuesday, Pupy carried out the green province of North Argentine province of Misiones near the border with Brazil.
While the rough road trip stands upright in your box, sleeps and feeds on vegetable, fruit, grass and vitamin nutritional supplements. The Brazilian parking personnel and Argentine handler monitor their condition in pre -planned breaks and through cameras in the box.
It took months to prepare the pupy for so many hours of restriction.
“She makes the trip flawlessly,” said María José Catanzariti, a veterinarian and manager at The Buenos Aires Preserve. “Sometimes these animals don’t want to eat in the first 24 hours, but Pupy continues to eat.”
Pupy is only the latest in a series of over 1,000 wild animals – elephants as well as lions, tigers, bears and monkeys – that the Buenos Aires “Ecopark” have sent abroad since its conversion from a Ramshackle City Zoo.
The animals build new life on green pastures free of detention. In 2019, an orang called Sandra exchanged its limited, lonely existence in the Argentine nature reserve against the roaming room and 22 new friends of her own species in the center for great monkeys in Wauchula, Florida.
The Brazilian elephant already enjoyed five Asian elephants – including Mara, a former circus elephant, who also landed in the enclosure of the Argentine Preserve, and five years ago it now made at least 10 kilometers (6 miles) a day.
The Brazilian elephant Sanctuary offers newcomers to adapt to life in the wild, to bring behaviors back into their species and in contact after so many years has been often isolated and alone.
Since Pupy can only ban PUPY with other African elephants, she will adapt to her new habitat alone before giving an African elephant with African elephant named Kenya.
From a zoo in the city of Mendoza, Western Argentina, with a story of similarly poor conditions, Kenya is now being trained before making the journey to the extensive more hectare of refuge, which causes the natural home of an elephant.
