Guillermina

Guille Gets Frightened By Birds

December 20, 2022

Recently we wrote about the birds that follow the girls around, eating the bugs that circle the elephants’ feet. It seems that Guillermina hasn’t yet gotten used to them being around yet, because they still have the ability to give her a momentary startle. ...

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Maia Makes Guille’s Training Interesting

December 19, 2022

In her charming way, Maia is making training slightly more challenging by wanting to come and join in during Guille’s sessions. When Maia is there, it’s nearly impossible to get anything substantial done. Sometimes Scott will work a little with one elephant and then switch to the other; sometimes he…...

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From Scott: Guille and the Vulnerabilities of Training

December 15, 2022

As we’ve mentioned, we’re working on training with Guillermina so that she can learn some new behaviors for foot care and refine some of her other behaviors like “lean ins,” which were limited because there wasn’t a full training wall to work with them in Mendoza. In addition to acquiring…...

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Guillermina Stripping Bark From a Tree

December 13, 2022

Once again, we caught Guillermina on our observation camera having a ball in the rain. In this instance, she’s actually stripping bark from one of the trees and eating it – something we don’t recall seeing another captive Asian elephant do. That’s much more akin to African elephant behavior. ...

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Guille Plays In the Rain

December 8, 2022

We’ve had a number of really nice rain storms lately which, as you know, make the elephants happy. Rain means mud and mud can often bring out silly behavior in the girls. That was the case on this day with Guillermina. ...

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Guillermina Adjusts to Footwork

December 7, 2022

Guillermina and Maia have similar energies in many ways including, as we are finding out, during foot care sessions. Maia is well known for her sleepy demeanor during footwork and it seems that Guille is starting to approach her mani/pedi time with the same attitude. ...

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