Iconic animals set to leave Taronga Sydney

Taronga Zoo Sydney’s Asian elephants are acceptable to depart aft much than 100 years of the immense animals being astatine the city’s celebrated wildlife park.

Current nonmigratory elephants, females Tang Mo and Pak Boon, volition permission for South Australia successful mid-2025, to beryllium successful a larger and much societal herd.

Taronga Conservation Society Australia main enforcement Cameron Kerr said the breeding programme Tang Mo and Pak Boon came to Australia for has present flourished crossed aggregate zoos.

Tang Mo and Pak Boon were much-loved, educating conservationists and inspiring millions of visitors, Mr Kerr said.

The brace person been astatine Taronga Zoo Sydney since 2006, coming from Thailand with 3 others to initiate a breeding program.

A zoo spokesperson said successful the elephants’ place, a two-year-old Greater One-horned Rhino volition travel from Taronga Western Plains Zoo into a caller multi-species situation with a h2o buffalo.

“Taronga’s travel with elephants is acold from implicit and we volition proceed to play an important relation successful conservation programs crossed Asia and of people successful the determination breeding programme with 7 elephants successful the thriving, multi-generational herd astatine Taronga Western Plains Zoo successful Dubbo,” the spokesperson said.

Until Tang Mo and Pak Boon near the zoo would celebrate, big farewells and convey the elephant keepers.

Joining Tang Mo and Pak Boon astatine the Monarto Safari Park eastbound of Adelaide, volition beryllium a pistillate elephant from Auckland Zoo and a antheral and pistillate from Perth Zoo.

Asian elephants Burma, Permai and Putra Mas, coming from WA and New Zealand, are the instauration of a South Australia herd, the Monarto Safari Park says.

The archetypal elephant to enamour patrons of the Sydney zoo was Jessie, a pistillate from India who arrived 1883.

Jessie travelled crossed the harbour successful 1916 to beryllium a instauration nonmigratory of Taronga Zoo’s predecessor, Billy Goat Swamp Zoo.

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) lists Asian elephants arsenic endangered, with little than 50,000 near successful the chaotic crossed southbound and southeast Asia.

They are “extremely sociable” forming groups of six to 7 related females that are led by the oldest female, the matriarch, WWF accusation reads.

In the chaotic they support grassland and forestry successful bully health, and arsenic they vessel done dense forest, different animals tin past determination on the caller paths.

They tin walk up to 19 hours a time feeding, and tin make astir 100 kilograms of dung which spreads germinating seeds.

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