Posted on 09/01/2024 10:19:32 PM PDT by blueplum
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — When it comes to the niche business of moving elephants, Dr. Amir Khalil and his team might be the best.
The Egyptian veterinarian’s résumé includes possibly the most famous elephant relocation on the planet. In 2020, Khalil’s team saved Kaavan, an Asian elephant, from years of loneliness at a Pakistan zoo...
Kaavan was dubbed the “world’s loneliest elephant” at the time, and the project was a great success. But he was not the only one that needed help....
Charley, an aging four-ton African elephant, had outlived his fellow elephants at a zoo in the capital, Pretoria, where he’d stayed for more than 20 years....
Captured as a young calf in western Zimbabwe in the 1980s and taken from his herd, he spent 16 years in a South African circus and 23 years as the prime attraction at Pretoria’s National Zoological Garden. He’s thought to be 42 years old now and spent 40 of them in captivity....
And so, a process began of training an occasionally grumpy old elephant to step willingly into a large metal transport container that would be loaded onto a truck....
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What the HELL is with you? FREEPERS don’t throw out FUs like that.
Of course someone would bring up transparent aluminum.
A littl3 tip: if you find that you have been swallowed by an elephant, the way to get back out is :run around until you are all pooped out:
Operation Dumbo Drop II.
Check with Kallita Cargo.
They will fly almost ANYTHING.
WHEN Covid hit & commercial airlines refused to get Americans in China, Kalitta bolted seats to the floors of a cargo plane & brought 3 planeloads of Americans out to Mach AFB is Calif.
Yep. My backlit keyboard croaked and I use nice little whit keyboard which looks better on my desk. It’s a girl thing. Plus, my vision sucks.
...one bite at a time...
I will ask permission to share from my Sweet Baboo. It’s his story.
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