Sri Lanka gives another elephant calf to Auckland Zoo

June 21, 2015 12:15 pm

The eight-year-old female, Anjalee, was flown to Auckland from Pinnawala elephant orphanage on Sunday (21) on an Air Force Hercules plane, after a three-month quarantine in Niue, the Radio New Zealand news agency reported.

She is the first of two new elephants coming to the zoo from an elephant orphanage in Sri Lanka, and will join the zoo’s current 32-year-old female elephant, Burma.

The zoo’s director, Jonathan Wilcken, said it was fantastic that Anjalee had finally arrived.

Mr Wilcken said people would be able to visit Anjalee once she had settled into her new surroundings. He said it was difficult to provide a time frame but people could keep an eye on the zoo’s website for updates.

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