When it comes to the business of moving elephants, Amir Khalil and his team might be the best. In 2020, the Egyptian veterinarian and his team saved Kaavan, an Asian elephant, from years of loneliness at a Pakistan zoo and flew him to a better life at a sanctuary in Cambodia.
In this photo supplied by Four Paws, Charley, an ageing four-ton African elephant, enters his adaption enclosure to acclimatise, at the Shambala Private Game Reserve, South Africa , Monday, Aug. 19, 2024, after being transported from Pretoria ’s National Zoological Gardens. In this photo supplied by Four Paws, Charley, an ageing four-ton African elephant, enters his adaption enclosure to acclimatise, at the Shambala Private Game Reserve, South Africa , Monday, Aug.
“I don’t know how many hundreds of thousands of people and children witnessed and enjoyed Charley,” said Khalil. “I think it’s time for him to also enjoy life and to live as an elephant.” That was to assess how ready he was to move and, crucially, to earn his trust. The interaction was carefully controlled, but it involved teaching Charley to respond to calls to walk up to a “training wall” that has gaps in it for the team to offer him a food reward. In Charley’s case, pumpkins, papaya and beetroot are his favorites.
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