Ryan Hockley
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 18 Jul
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She's exploring the outside more and more each day.
She's using the mud wallow.
We couldn't be happier with the progress that she's making.
She's doing really well.
We're really pleased with the progress that she's making.
She seems to have settled in quickly.
So she's very comfortable with the inside space and she's exploring the outside habitats more and more each day.
She's using the mud wallow.
which is vitally important for any elephant, captive or wild, for skin care.
But she's behaving just like a wild elephant insofar as, you know, on the particularly hot days, she'll put a protective layer of mud on to obviously shield her from sun and also biting insects.
We couldn't be happier with the progress that she's making.
In modern terms, this was one of the last areas of elephant habitat.
So it's just a lovely story.
I think that Pangea chose this place to develop their sanctuary.
And as I, you know, as I look out my window across the rolling countryside, if I just use my imagination, I could be in Tanzania or Kenya, somewhere like that.
Particularly, you know, for the African elephants that are arriving here, I'd like to think that choosing the Iberian Peninsula has really given us a chance to give them a habitat as close as you can get to Africa as you possibly could do without stepping foot there.
Yeah, exactly.
I'm pleasantly surprised the speed that she's settled in forming relationships with the care team.
And there are some pattern behaviors that she has naturally brought across from that life, you know, stereotypical behaviors.
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