african elephants

Female African elephant Pupy stands in the treatment barn while holding a flake of hay in between her trunk and her tusks

Carrying Hay in Her Own Unique Way

July 22, 2025

While the Asian elephants tend to approach and snack gently on their hay (except for maybe Maia and Guillermina), the African elephants sometimes have their own unique approach to eating their hay. In this video you can see Pupy picking some up and sticking it between her trunk and tusk…...

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GSE co-founder Scott Blais kneels down while giving female African elephant Kenya a hose bath

Learning to Love a Hose Bath

July 21, 2025

You may have noticed that Kenya has a significant build up of dead skin all over her body. She’s got layers and layers, which will take some time to slough off. This is something that lots of dusting, mud, and rubbing on tree bark will help significantly, but we also…...

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Female African elephant Kenya walks through a corridor of grass and trees

Kenya and Pupy Make Progress

July 18, 2025

For the past day, Kenya has been spending time in Yard 1 of the female African habitat and Pupy has had access to Yards 2 and 3, with separate areas of the barn being open to each. They’ve had the ability to share a fence line and could meet at…...

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Kenya’s First Tree

July 16, 2025

Even though Kenya has a big energy, she’s been relatively gentle with the trees in the habitat so far. She’s doing a great job at exploring and finding her way around her new space, but there have been no big crashes like those we saw when Pupy was making…...

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Female African elephant Pupy stands along the fence line with a stick in her mouth

Sticks Galore For Pupy

July 15, 2025

Pupy has really taken to sanctuary life and all that comes with it. A few times, she has appeared out of nowhere at mealtime, chomping on a branch. Yesterday at dinner, caregivers had to wait on her to finish munching on her branch, which made her in less of a…...

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Female African elephant Pupy looks directly at the camera, her left ear flapping out

Kenya and Pupy: An Update

July 14, 2025

Both Kenya and Pupy are taking baby steps in building their relationship with one another. This weekend, they met up briefly and are beginning to build an understanding of each other that will hopefully grow with time. In this instance, Kenya was coming out of the bushes and Pupy was…...

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