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Is the Grass Always Greener?

The entire sanctuary habitat is covered with fresh greenery at the moment, so there’s plenty of browse and graze for the elephants to choose from. However, as Rana is quick to demonstrate here, sometimes what you want is just a little reach away. Scott jokes that “the grass is always…...

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Mara’s Reunion With Bambi and Rana

One morning, when visiting caregiver Nicole got to the barn, it was overcast with a little bit of rain. Bambi and Rana were in Yard 5 rumbling and roaring and running around. They kept walking over to the gate between Yards 4 and 5 and just staring through it. Though…...

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Rana Calls For Her Sisters

Volume on! As you can hear Scott talk about here (and as we wrote about previously), Rana had her sore ankle treated at the barn. However, Rana seemed to have a better idea about what she wanted to do this morning instead of an ankle check. Rather than walk through…...

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Sunday Smile: Looking For a Nest

As you may have witnessed when we released a bird into the sanctuary recently, our land here is filled with macaws – both the blue-and-gold and red-and-green. As Scott narrates in this Sunday Smile video, we appear to have a couple who appear to be looking for the right place…...

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Guillermina Grazes With Mara

As we’ve talked about before, relationships among the elephants here at sanctuary continually evolve. The dynamics between Guillermina and the other elephants have been in constant motion as she learns to be a member of a herd and they learn what life is like with a younger elephant. ...

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Nicole Trimming Guille’s Nails

As caregiver Nicole mentioned in a previous post, she has been introduced to Guille and integrated into her existing training and foot care routine. This process was in part to allow Guille to become more comfortable with having two people work with her at the same time, which is something…...

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