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Maia Gives Guillermina Room to Share

While Guillermina is processing her relationships with other elephants in a slow and measured way, she has strong bonds with both Bambi and Maia. Occasionally, she tries to push Bambi’s buttons a little bit, but Bambi doesn’t allow Guille to get away with much of anything. Maia is a strong…...

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Rana Grazes Her Own Way

This week, we’ve taken a look at Lady’s special grazing technique, Guillermina’s unique way of eating grass, and now we get a peek at Rana demonstrating how she grazes....

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Rana Crosses the Creek to Graze

There are times when you can see elephants from up the hill, depending on where they’ve decided to spend time. One morning, Kat looked down into the habitat and saw an elephant by herself in the back of Yard 4 and across the creek, where there is some different and…...

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Guillermina’s Grass Eating Technique

Like all of the girls, Guillermina finds joy in being able to graze throughout the habitat, generally enjoying time with her friends and doing something she’d never been able to do before sanctuary – simply choosing what and where to eat. On this day, she was spending time with Mara,…...

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Lady Enjoys Some Green Grass

We often talk about how much Lady enjoys the grass in Yard 5, and this is just one example of how much she takes pleasure in her walks and her grazing. This was later in the day, after dinner and Lady was down by the pond, in a very spunky…...

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EleFact Friday: Yearly Round-Up

If there’s anything we know for sure, it’s that working with elephants is a constant journey of learning: not only learning aspects of animals as individuals, but educating ourselves about the species as a whole in order to provide them with the best care possible. A big part of sanctuary,…...

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