Died on Monday night (23), Asian elephant Tamy, who was in the former Zandozozozozo, in Argentina, and was being trained to be transported to the Brazil Elephant Sanctuary (SEB) located in Mato Grosso.
Tamy was 55 years old and had been receiving permanent veterinary assistance for joint pain. The animal spent more than 30 years in, in the former ZOOO, now transformed into an ecoparque.
According to the sanctuary, Tamy “had been facing some of the physical difficulties that accompany advanced age and extreme confinement.”
“His body was gradually dealing with increasing challenges, so although this news is shocking, it also sadly represents what captivity can cause to an individual – especially over decades,” wrote the recovery site of confinement elephants.
A necropsy will be held in the coming hours to determine the motives of death.
“We are very sad. CNN Leandro Fruitos, from the Franz Weber Foundation, who accompanies the situation of the elephants that are confined to Argentina.
Tamy arrived at the former Mendoza Zoo in 1984, after being “donated” by Circus Hermanas Gasca, who was unable to go to Chile with the animal.
“His past in the circus made most of them – if not all – of his formation based on domination, which generated deep distrust of humans,” wrote the Brazilian Elephant Sanctuary, in a post informing the animal’s death.
According to the sanctuary, in the last three months, a team worked to build a relationship with him, which responded positively. The approach aimed at the.
The Asian elephants Pocha and Guillermina, who also lived in the former Mendoza Zoological, were taken to the SEB in 2022.
Kenya, an African elephant that is still in place, is ready for transfer and should undertake travel soon to the Brazilian sanctuary.
In April, the was the protagonist of the 2,700 kilometers, made in five days, from EcoParque de Buenos Aires to the Sanctuary of Brazil.
