Mara, an elderly female elephant born in India, set out on a trip on Saturday from Buenos Aires to one of the animal shelters in Brazil, where she will have a better life, as announced by the Argentine municipality.
Mara, aged between 50 and 54, spent the first part of her life as a circus animal, then in 1995 she reached a zoo in Buenos Aires, and since then she has turned into an eco garden where these elephants lived.
Mara started its 2,000 km flight that had been scheduled since January, despite the outbreak of the Coronavirus.
The Mara weighs 5.5 tons, is 5 meters long, 2 meters wide and 3 meters high, and it consumes a ton of vegetables, fodder and sugar cane every day.
During an operation that lasted approximately 3 hours in the eco-park located in the Palermo region of Buenos Aires, Mara was placed in a huge wooden box specially created for this matter and entered a truck with a crane.
The truck set out at about 6:00 pm (9:00 pm GMT). As for its final destination, it is Chapada de Guimaraes in Mato Grosso, a state in central-western Brazil, and includes an elephant reserve covering an area of 1,200 hectares, where “Mara” will live in the last days of her life.
The flight is expected to last between 4 and 5 days, according to the statement issued by the Buenos Aires municipality.
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