Taronga- Whos Who in the Zoo - Season 6 Episode 01- Elephant Special
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00:00babies or animals but what if they're baby animals it was only born this morning on this
00:10all new season welcome back to the ever-changing world of taronga where you'll witness things
00:20you never thought possible you can actually hear her breathe and meet new faces oh hi buddy
00:28you'll never forget so good it's time to discover oh my god exactly who's who in this zoo
00:40on this special episode sydney's taronga park zoo elephants have been here at taronga for 109 years
00:50history in the making these two are the last here in sydney as taronga's elephants say goodbye it's
00:57not easy to move an elephant but go get a malsey back up toy just as they're preparing to leave
01:04we realize something was up a medical emergency we have to try to save the site we just have to
01:09how many bread cement are we getting that could not be any riskier a drop in your mouth or in your eye
01:15will kill you within minutes stops everything one hour down this is a world first if we go from zero
01:22to ten ten being the hardest we're probably at a hundred
01:25sydney's taronga park zoo where there's an unmistakable air of expectancy since taronga zoo in
01:37sydney opened its gates king kong's australia's first gorilla over 100 years ago in 1916 elephants
01:45have always called the harbour city home elephants have been here at taronga for 109 years actually
01:53originally with jesse coming over the harbour when taronga zoo first opened so it's a really amazing
01:59legacy species for taronga zoo yeah they love the rain i love the mud hey rosie but that's all about
02:08to end we have two female asian elephants here at taronga zoo sydney we have a 32 year old called
02:15pak boon which is a thai name that means morning glory flower and we have a 26 year old called tangmo
02:25which is a thai name that means watermelon and these two are the the last remaining elephants here in
02:31sydney elephants are very social animals oh it's getting hot in the wild asian elephants can live
02:40in sometimes large herds numbering dozens at a time and they normally rely on the herd for social
02:46interactions for play for for their day-to-day uh engagements here at taronga having the two females
02:53that we have regardless of our best efforts we've given the elephants big bumpers or boys from the navy
02:58yeah yeah see that even the toys that we make them out of big tractor tires and all the even the
03:03small fiddly enrichment items the ice blocks the peanut canisters to occupy their time to stimulate
03:09them mentally and physically it's still not quite enough we're not quite meeting their social needs
03:15we've noticed that they really do need something extra in their lives to fill that that gap
03:20so they will be heading to monata safari park to join two other females and later this year another male
03:25um and hopefully get that social um complexity that they do need in their lives and these big girls
03:33can't make the big move to south australia without getting in a big crate
03:41it's not easy to move an elephant elephants are first of all very large so to move an elephant
03:47involves getting them into a transport container cooperatively so this is our transport container which
03:52is basically a modified shipping container and this will be where they'll be for 20 plus hours on the
03:58trip down to monata safari park but getting them into the crate is a job in itself and takes months
04:05and months of training good girl so every morning before they get their main breakfast good good more we
04:13start the training sessions good girl other foot good wearing their safety bands go for it johnny all
04:23right see you out there and then one at a time they come into the crate hey mo
04:30i did go safety bands around their legs which are chained to lugs on the floor and these are all
04:37very much there for the elephant's safety and their their security on the trip hi yes
04:46other foot good these restraints are very similar to a seat belt or even those uh straps that you hold
04:52on a bus when you're standing hi good to make sure they have that ability to hold their position within
05:00the crate is really valuable but to get them to that position involves a lot of small steps done over
05:19many many months
05:22so by doing that on repetition every single day it means that come the day of transport it should
05:28just be another day for them they get in the crate and the only difference is we close the doors in
05:32front and behind them cool ready when you are all right mosey back up take more back toy good girl back
05:40good girl mosey back up toy good girl back good girl tang mo and pat boone i've been lucky enough to work
05:47with them for about nine years now hello you did so well tingle move up the training session went very
05:53well it's just matter of building resilience and as you can see she's doing a fantastic job good girl
05:58bones move up while tang mo is handling crate training like a pro when it comes to pack boone alarm bells
06:08are ringing good open there you go very good during one of our crate sessions we noticed when we
06:14threw her treat to her right side that she didn't pick up on it visually all right bunny back up toy
06:20toy back back good girl back up back good girl and when she was backing up as well she kind of missed
06:27a few treats so that was the first indicator when we realized maybe something was up
06:34i think she's done good steady pack so upon closer inspection we noticed a slight deformation
06:39in her eyeball which then led us to get the vets involved from then we noticed that there was an
06:43ulceration forming on her eye which then consequently uh showed us that there was a um a perforation in
06:49her cornea all right pack boom back up if pack boone's eye is in fact injured she won't be allowed to
06:57travel and that means the elephant's move to a new life at monato safari park could be placed on hold
07:05indefinitely one of the challenges of running a zoo is feeding the different types of animals from
07:21all over the world good morning pep ready for your brekkie from pellets grains and hay to all types of meat
07:30every animal has a diet that taronga staff need to accommodate good girl but for the african herbivores
07:38there's a surprisingly abundant source of their favorite foods not too far away
07:46today the horticulture team is going out to the western sydney airport there is um basically
07:52just it's almost an unlimited source of olive for us african olive is considered a noxious weed here
08:00in australia but for african species it's a food source we are literally just collecting olive
08:07today and that's it that is it and we're going to fill up this trap to its capacity and distribute it
08:13all around the zoo we'll be giving to the giraffes the gorillas the chimps some of the smaller animals
08:23as well hungry mouths to feed yes there's a few there's a few yeah
08:31there's a new airport being built in new south wales is this it yeah the airport right wow it sits on
08:401700 acres of land but the airport has a huge weed problem and team taronga are here to help our
08:50partnership with the western sydney uh airport what that is doing is it's giving us a sustainable
08:55source of browse to feed out to our animals and it's also going to be removing a noxious weed from
09:02their bushland and helping them regenerate the land as well it's an all-you-can-eat buffet out there
09:08and we're ready to go because that weed is about to be taken down
09:19back at taronga the future of their asian elephants is in limbo steady as their move
09:25to their new home in south australia has been shut down and all because of pack boone's eye
09:31recently we have noticed that pack boone has a small eye injury we want to make sure she's in
09:37optimal health for the journey to monato and for her settling in period there steady pack one
09:44good open there you go very good she's a very strong willed girl and so she has been a little
09:49bit resistant to topical treatment and taking medicine and having her eye looked at particularly
09:55closely what the vet team do know is that if pack boone's eye is left untreated it can turn into a
10:02series of serious issues for her infections blindness and she could even lose her eye so we have decided
10:11in consultation obviously with our bets and ophthalmologists that we work with that we are
10:16going to need to do a full general anesthetic so that they can really get in there and have a really
10:21good look at her eye and provide any treatment that might be needed and today's the day this jumbo
10:29patient goes under the anesthetic start with that it's not something that happens very often this is
10:38a huge procedure for us the last time we did an elephant and i said it was 10 years ago actually to
10:44the day and we've got about 33 people involved we've got people coming in from interstate we've got equipment
10:56coming in from interstate we've got equipment coming in from other hospitals
11:01it's a massive massive undertaking because the patient is the size she is to add even more complexity
11:09to the procedure it all has to happen at pack boone's place in the elephant house
11:19i am keeping my voice down because we're just outside the barn where the elephant currently is
11:25we've got tons of specialized equipment and now we're just setting it up here where the elephants
11:31won't be aware of it in order to prepare ourselves so it's on hand and ready to go gabby
11:37the ice that cartridges in that black bag when people have an anesthetic you'll often have a
11:43tube pop down your throat to help you to breathe this is the size et tube that we would use for an
11:49elephant so same thing just um a bit bigger than my throat there has been very high stress levels
11:57throughout this procedure is as big as it gets it's monumental we do regularly do large animal and
12:04dangerous animal procedures this is all of the challenging factors rolled into one add to that
12:11a very intelligent animal they're completely onto us elephants are so intuitive they absolutely would
12:17know that we're here no matter how quiet we try and be but we still try and minimize disturbance and
12:23keep them in their normal routine and we don't want to cause them any stress and therefore not work
12:29as well for the trainers and that's what we're relying on to be able to administer the medications for the
12:35anesthetic the last thing anyone wants today is to try and anesthetize four tons of disgruntled elephant
12:47in sydney pac boone's eye operation is about to get underway and at the hospital michael the anesthetist
12:56is one of the specialists brought in for today's rather delicate procedure i'm leading the anesthesia
13:04of the elephant uh pac boone today um it's a very uh uh challenging thing she's uh three over 3800 kilos
13:15so we've got to we've got to manage all that and monitor it and understand what's what's going on
13:21when are you going to drop the torphine uh pretty soon so torphine is a um is a ultra uh potent opioid
13:32less than one half of a mil is enough to make that 3800 kilo elephant lie down uh so it's enormously
13:40powerful uh but unfortunately it comes with the risk of of um being pretty lethal for humans as well
13:48and so we've got to be very very careful when we're using it to protect ourselves uh with that
13:54because the less than a drop is going to kill kill a human so we cover up as much of our skin as possible
14:04all right so probably just stand back a bit i reckon yeah yeah when we're using uh such a dangerous
14:10drug we have uh uh protocols uh to keep us safe and one of those uh today is having actually our
14:19ambulance personnel right here with us so in the event of an exposure we've got that sort of medical
14:26help just right there with the atorphine at the ready michael heads down to the elephant house
14:35okay thanks everyone for coming this morning an army of vets keepers and veterinary specialists
14:42have come together to take part in today's epic procedure i just want to quickly go through the
14:48risks i think the main things for today are masks so the biosecurity uh one thing these masks what we
14:56were thinking once she's down and integrating starting the ventilation that's when we're masking on
15:01so we're not masking on right now because she's not used to us yeah for sure yeah all right yeah
15:06that makes sense um the other one is obviously manual handling um and working around the elephant
15:11so just being um really mindful of particularly when um you're in the store with her and particularly
15:17those key moments are going to be when she's going down and then obviously when she's coming um out
15:22at the end in recovery there's a few important considerations with an elephant anesthesia just
15:28being really really mindful not crawling under her at any point to get any straps in number one
15:33is danger to the people just based on her size at any point we may be asked just to leave and you'll
15:41have to just kind of drop everything and step out of the store because four tons is a lot once she's
15:45down we can't move her uh one of the other big risks for today is the use of the torphine so i'm just
15:51going to get flea just to quickly run through risk mitigations one of the anesthetic drugs we're using
15:56is a torphine the ambos are on site a torphine is a very potent drug it's much stronger than morphine
16:05and it can kill you if you get a drop of it on your skin so the important things to remember is there
16:11will be an exposure spot at her rump where she's injected in the muscle she'll get the injection it'll
16:17be cleaned down and marked with bright green anything that's bright green indicates a torphine so don't
16:23touch it if there isn't a torphine emergency the ambulance guys are on site on the contacts to
16:30get them where they need to be immediately we know how to provide first aid for it obviously
16:35they are far better at doing so than us and probably a lot quicker a drop in your mouth or in your eye
16:40will kill you within minutes so that's why we have ambulance here and we have a lot of
16:45procedures and protocols in place to make sure that doesn't happen and if it does happen that
16:52we can act on it immediately any questions just no touchy no touchy with the formalities out of the
17:03way michael heads for the elephant house while taronga's vet team watch on anxiously with the two
17:10specialists who have been brought in to work on pack boone's eye my name is kelly caruso and i'm a
17:17board certified veterinary ophthalmologist how much time do you need to set up we'll need probably 20
17:23minutes to set up to set up okay my name's william irving i'm also a board certified ophthalmologist
17:30so the pair of us together today will be hopefully fixing pack boone's eye pack boone has a hole in her
17:37eye and the part of the eye the hole is in is called the corneum which is the clear front part
17:42of the eye which is necessary for vision it's also causing her discomfort this hole soon as we get in
17:48there we want to have quick access to the eye to the globe itself and then the goal is is to look at
17:55the hole look at the tissue around there look at the cornea see how healthy it is the cornea is the
18:01front clear part of the eye yeah look at the iris which is the colored part of the eye that's sort of
18:06coming forward to help block um the hole try to push everything back into its normal anatomical
18:13location make sure it looks healthy patch it and get out we've got all sorts of tissue and synthetics
18:21and her own tissue that we're planning on using to repair this hole and that's the goal we want to
18:26try to get this fixed as quickly as possible what we don't want to happen is we have to a nucleate the eye
18:31which means remove it we'll make that decision pretty quickly depending on how healthy the tissue
18:36is or not with the atorphine injection complete michael marks the spot with a fluoro green spray paint
18:45today's procedure is going to be really challenging for all of us you can tell by the number of people
18:50that all hands on deck today i'll wheel this so there's a lot going on i think every team has their
18:57own challenges from the ophthalmic standpoint and trying to repair this eye if we go from zero to ten
19:10ten being the hardest we're probably at 100. leaving the animals behind taronga's horticulture team
19:25have ventured out of the zoo to the western sydney airport site let's go great we're there preparing
19:34to harvest an exotic treat for taronga's african residents so what we've got here is african olive
19:43it does look it is in the olive family so it is related to the european olive however this is a
19:50weed from africa so it really takes hold here in our natural bushlands and colonizes everything
19:56crowding out a lot of our native species so coming out here and removing the bulk of the vegetation
20:02we're minimizing its opportunity to spread seed and we're also feeding the animals that love to eat
20:09it actually this is a perfect hanger but it's not one size fits all so we're looking to cut different
20:18sizes for the different sized animals something like this will be going to the giraffes quite a large
20:25branch for quite a large animal something big can be used to sort of hang up and and allow the
20:31giraffes to sort of feed on it and then we do a selection of slightly smaller stuff that they
20:36bundle up and put in pots along the fence line as a different way to sort of feed it out as well
20:41creates a bit of interest for the animals so i'm just going to cut like these smaller ones here
20:46all right some of the smaller branches will be given out to the primates some of those will be
20:51turned into little bouquets and sort of hung up as well it's a really rewarding unique part of
20:57horticulture providing the food for the animals it's great to be able to provide a staple part of
21:03their diet this is primates so this is specifically that's fence for giraffes more primatey stuff up
21:12there more primate and i've probably got some more fence stuff this is the hangers this is hangers
21:18there's no shortage okie doke we're probably close to done we're going to be looking at filling up the
21:24truck the truck the truck will hold about 20 square meters of african olive there about
21:31and we'll try and fit as much as possible in to bring back
21:39with a truck full of goodies they set off for taronga where pak boon the asian elephant is now sedated
21:48so the entire vet team can safely enter the elephant house for today's big procedure the
21:54risks of anesthetizing an adult elephant are mainly around her size and her respiratory system if she
22:02goes down onto her chest and we can't move her onto her side then that makes it very very difficult for
22:08her to breathe so getting her to lie down when she's anesthetized is really hard in a safe way and in the
22:16position that you want her to so there's an army of people using ropes slings and a crane to get this
22:23big lady to hopefully lie down safely the worst thing that can happen if she goes down and her head
22:30is forward and her trunk is underneath her and then we've only got minutes to save her and move her
22:36so yeah so everyone's on tenterhooks especially for this part wait wait flexi wait pull once she's
22:49down and once she's on her side then we'll be a lot more comfortable
22:52can we get a rope around those far side and pull up
23:09the brilliance of the elephant keeping team so you know i can't string up a laundry line they were able
23:17to string up an elephant in a beautiful safe way where it looked like a ballet so as she went to
23:23sleep she got lifted off a little bit off her feet and those legs got pulled under and she lay down
23:29soft as anything with a nice tire under her head it couldn't have gone better it was a beautiful thing
23:37with pack boone comfortably down you've got gloves on can you just connect that up
23:41um for me it's our lifeline michael and his team just need to make sure she's stable i don't know
23:49what do you want to do this and then i'll stick the catheter in before the eye specialists can get
23:55to work she's breathing on her own i'm just supplementing her okay how many breaths are we
23:59getting about six six okay so what's the heart rate it's 37 37 so it's okay preciously good
24:0638 and title so she's all good anesthesia's tough they are a big animal there are certain things you
24:15have to be really careful with michael at what stage can the ophthalmologist come in oh now now yeah okay
24:23access to the eye um the way that they're laying and and us getting to the eye is going to probably
24:29be one of the hardest aspects of the procedure today their eye position might change so you tell me what
24:35eye position is that okay for you would you expect that what you're doing is going to be very painful
24:40no no no just a little bit of stinging with a local anesthetic maybe yeah while the eye specialists
24:46often work on smaller animals she has some unique abilities that our usual dogs and cats do not have
24:54the sheer size and weight of an elephant makes even the simplest task extremely challenging they have
25:00incredibly strong eyelid muscles even under anesthesia they are really difficult to open their eyelids i
25:08would love a pair of forceps yep because i'll hold it for you and you can let's grab can we grab that
25:12sterile the sterile stuff over because i'll try and get one of those speculants in that might help us
25:17quite a bit it's pretty low dose there give it a try and see what we get oh wow there's like all this
25:26we'll just put it in here with the minutes ticking by one hour down the worst case scenario starts to
25:35look more and more likely happy there no if they can't get the injured eye into position then they
25:43can't fix it we're sort of a little bit of heart-sinking moment thinking oh are we actually going to be
25:49able to get this done tell me jesus the horticulture team have returned from their airport run and are
26:04unloading their baggage back at taronga we've got a browse fridge and inside that we saw the different
26:11fresh feed for different animals in tubs of water the tubs they've got every day of the week on them
26:18and they get fed out to the animals so we can keep track of what they're getting and inside there
26:23we'll be storing the african olive that we're bringing back today for the primates what we do
26:28is we try to give them a distribution of various species that have got a good variety in their diet
26:34and a minimum of three different things per day typically african olive will feature almost every day
26:40as well the browse fridge is where the horticultural team's job ends and the keeper's job begins
26:48the keepers are responsible for delivering the browse to the hungry animals in their respective
26:53habitats this enrichment is really important for our squirrel monkeys so you can see they're all
26:58rummaging through these brows and they're running around a bit crazy and that's because they are very
27:02excited but the squirrel monkey's excitement is nothing compared to what's happening in the african
27:08savannah precinct where it's out with the old and in with the new all right we can drop that there
27:14and i'll go grab some more browse
27:22so basically um we get the hooks in all the branches and we put the um the chains through them
27:28and then hang them up so we'll raise these up and the giraffes will just eat it throughout the day
27:35the chains obviously make quite a loud sound the giraffes listen to the sound of the chains going
27:45up they often come out when they hear it they start drooling they get very excited
27:50we hang browse because giraffes are obviously quite tall in the wild they're quite an interesting species
27:56in terms of they're the only species that eat from the tops of canopies so we need to rise these up
28:00they've got long necks they need to be able to stimulate their tongue and it's just kind of
28:04mimicking the natural eating behaves as best that we can so as you can see they're definitely enjoying
28:11our brows evo it's really rewarding to go out to the airport and and collect the sustainable food
28:18source and bring it back um as browse for the animals it's a win-win situation for us all
28:24meanwhile in the elephant house the ophthalmologists need to actually see pack boon's damaged eye before
28:35they can even attempt to fix it i'm just infiltrate some of her lids kill okay so initially we were
28:41really concerned about how we were going to get access to the eye you can take it from there elephants
28:47just have such strong eye muscles and they like to pull that eye back down into the socket so when we
28:54started it was almost about you know an inch sitting there further down into the depths of her
28:59socket so the globe is there we want to get back in here we've got spinals we can pass we can really
29:05pass it around the back then that would be great and finally after 18 agonizing minutes so i think we're
29:11in the result they were all hoping for oh that's oh yeah that felt really good you can do i think that
29:18was perfect when the blocks started going in with the local anesthetic her muscles started relaxing
29:25how's your access yeah yeah it's okay good you're not getting any response i guess you've blocked it
29:31now yeah yeah we were able to get the eye into a really nice position uh where we could do what we
29:36need us to do okay let's do it yep i'll put a gown on from the moment she laid down and we got in there
29:48i thought we have to try to save this eye we just have to what do you think surgery surgery hopefully
29:54we'll be able to get a graft in and get the patch in as well no ego here but we just wanted to save her
30:00eye i'm good i think we're good let's do it because we thought that would be her best possible outcome
30:06they think the best repair is possible so we're going to go for plan a i love it they're not talking
30:14about taking the eye out so i'm happy with that let's have a look what do you think excellent yeah
30:21that's great obviously we had a few different plans in place um the worst case scenario was that
30:26pat boone had to have her eye removed okay perfect i think that's yeah for the moment okay uh we might
30:34not even need stay sutures let's just let's just do it but we got our plan a in so we got the best
30:39case scenario of what we could do the type of graft we wanted to get in there to just give her the best
30:44possible chances of healing having a good outcome and having vision so plan a was yeah like the sliding
30:51corneal graft yeah they're going to integrate the um the synthetic graft the pork graft into the
30:58corneal layer so at least you'll have two layers if that comes down fingers crossed
31:07can we have a six punch biopsy let's cut a six six i've seen the bios biases and can i have a 64 beaver
31:14blade please it was go go go from from the start what do you think down the bottom i'm thinking it's
31:20going to be hard with this we kind of didn't know what we were getting ourselves into going into it at
31:25the limbus yeah that was going to be a beautiful graph it's really not wanting to come away from the
31:31globe is it okay we're going to get it it's almost there and then i'm going to we're going to put four
31:38stitches in it was all just quick decisions being made how are you guys progressing good we've just
31:47retrieved the graft yeah um we're about to dissect the area around the hole and plug it and then we
31:54can pull the graft into place so we're probably if everything goes perfectly we're about 40 minutes 40
31:59minutes all right although the eye surgeons are making quick progress it's a race against the clock
32:05because the longer pack boone is under anesthetic the more her life is at risk and no one cares more
32:13about this beautiful beast than her faithful keepers the keepers have been working with her for
32:19about 20 years and that they work with her every day and she's you know she's part of a family she's
32:25not just a zoo animal she's an extremely important animal to all of us and a massive part of our lives
32:35and it weighs on everybody's uh head and heart that if something happens to her today it will be
32:45tragic you know we're trying not to think about that but but it's definitely a possibility and
32:50something we have to consider so we're all gunning for her it'll be it'll be devastating if something bad
32:58happens what sort of time length do you reckon you guys are off so we're suturing in the um synthetic
33:05graft right now so 30 minutes 30 30 minutes okay we're working quickly i promise anesthesia is risky
33:14for any animal let alone a four ton elephant so the eye surgeons are under pressure to get pack boone's eye
33:22fixed as fast as they possibly can the eyes rolling back down yep i thought earlier that
33:30on a scale of zero to ten ten being the hardest we were at a hundred we were at a thousand
33:37it's okay she seems lighter she could be a little bit lighter like she's she's trying to pull her eye a
33:44little bit you feel like you've got this huge adrenaline rush i'll give her a little bolus of uh
33:49determined i think the team here was spectacular you notice that she gets she's a bit deeper now
33:55yeah i think she seems pretty good she's very good the collaboration was the best like bar none
34:02absolutely extraordinary she had a large hole within her cornea sitting about here
34:08so what we did we stitched adjacent cornea that we've harvested here and then slid that forwards so
34:14that brings a nice blood supply with it and we've got healthy cornea sitting in the center where she'll
34:19do most of her scenes so i think those last two should do us well beautiful lovely lovely
34:30so that was um that was intense okay so do finished finished and we did everything we
34:36thought we were going to be able to do ah this i think is a world first for a corneal conjunctival
34:45transpositional graft so a big long fancy word for her own tissue and a sort of a seamless
34:51integration into her cornea okay we're done thanks gab okay we think they kept number for y'all
34:59did you grab the light all things considered um it went better than we had expected we just need to
35:07pack up all this stuff we're done we're done this is she's gonna be up in 10 minutes and all pack boone
35:13needs to do now is wake up
35:22adipamazole okay that's an important time 12 12 11. so pack boone's vision is going to take a little
35:31bit of time to come back as she heals so there's going to be a lot of inflammation within the eye
35:35while she's healing there's going to be lots of blood vessels growing in to kind of heal heal the
35:40area in the cornea and that's all all good um good part of healing and we should start to see some
35:46really good vision return looking forward um in roughly 21 to 28 days the big stitches that they put in
35:56will start to dissolve for the first couple of weeks you might close your eyes to give her a good
36:00protection but once she hits that 21 days and the stitches start to dissolve she'll have her eye a
36:05little bit more open which is very exciting and hopefully in the future the graph will be seen less
36:12and less as the years go on so it's a really positive outcome such a come on girl oh that's it that's it very
36:20good
36:32how'd it go back boom move up back boom move up good girl back fun good girl good girl bunny
36:40it's been a couple of weeks since the surgery and we've been checking out pakpoon every single day in
36:43the bath uh to see how our eye is going and progressing good girl she's slowly been opening
36:50it more and more every day as she gets more and more comfortable with what went on uh through the
36:54the procedure and as the stitches dissolve and it becomes more comfortable for her we're expecting
36:58the eye to open even further uh but just by looking at eye today uh we can see that the the beautiful
37:03iris colors back uh we can see that the eye is healing really nicely and we're very happy with the
37:07progress lean in fucking lean in good steady fucking leaning good steady huh good and with her eye being
37:17uh partly healed or very much on its way to being healed uh we can resume the crate training and the
37:22transport training uh which means that we're getting her in the crate every morning making sure
37:26that she's comfortable in there again um and back to where she was before as quick as possible
37:30what love you it's not only the keepers that are happy with her recovery the ophthalmologist came in
37:40to check pak boone's eye and it's not very easy because she likes to keep it shut but they managed to
37:45get a very quick but good look at her eye and they were really thrilled the eye is healing as well as it
37:52could hope to and so she's okay to travel and so after months of uncertainty
37:58pak boone and tangmo finally have the all clear to head off to their new home in south australia
38:08it's been about six weeks since pak boone had her eye operation she's been given a clean bill of
38:15health by the vets and deemed fit to travel to her new home in south australia and today after a
38:23century of calling sydney home taronga's elephants are finally saying goodbye yep pak boone out but
38:31then when tangmo's loading of course that's when we'll really need to make sure people aren't coming
38:35by today we're moving our elephants and my role here today is overall coordination with the team
38:42moment in history yeah it really is amongst all the logistics and the stuff it's like oh actually this
38:49is quite a big day yeah i think we are literally all running on adrenaline today and everything
38:54feels like it's really coming together 20 30 minutes the first crate will go past gorillas
39:01we're pumped we're excited we're nervous we're anxious we're everything
39:09the first thing we need to do is get tangmo and pak boone to load into their crate so we can get on
39:13the road same as yesterday cable was we've done so much preparation training's been going really really
39:18well look at that beautiful eye gorgeous so it's kind of up to the girls now we need them to get
39:25in their crates all right very good all right see you outside see you soon one of the key things for
39:32today going really smoothly ready when you are is keeping things really normal for pak boone and tangmo
39:37good girl bunny the keepers have been doing these training sessions right about this time every day
39:43for months on end move up so it's really important today that we keep everything really normal
39:48all right very good i've just found out from our keepers that they have managed to get pak
39:54boone securely craters so she's in a crate and she'll be ready to go really soon and that's the
40:00cue for the crane to come in and well do the heavy lifting it's a really great first step for this
40:06morning really positive news and with pak boone making her way through the zoo
40:11it's tangmo's turn to step up to the crate good girl tangmo good galmo hey mosey that's it mosey move
40:22up the elephant's going to monata safari park it's going to be very different here at taronga zoo
40:26uh without elephants here for the first time since the zoo opened in 1916
40:44for us keepers as well a lot of us have worked with them for many many years
40:48we are part of their family they're part of our families we are we are very much one unit together
40:57and that one unit is embarking on one huge 24-hour journey to south australia for the last time all
41:07together drive safe each truck has a support vehicle keepers in each support vehicle with vets as well and
41:17vet nurses so we'll be stopping at regular intervals along the way to make sure we can check on the
41:23elephants give them food give them water make sure they're doing okay we also have cameras in the crate
41:33to monitor them as we're traveling so if there is ever any situation where we need to stop the trucks
41:37we will do that in a heartbeat their safety is paramount to us we do everything with them in mind
41:45and their welfare as the forefront of our of our concerns and eventually pak boon and tangmo reach
41:55their new home safe and sound this move to monata is very much the next step in what they need in their
42:01lives something that's got to get done for their benefit their welfare it's all about them
42:08oh what's out there she's doing very well so far she's just smelling
42:13all the different elephant smells in the barn
42:18she's very alert and looking around but the fact that she's eating is a really good sign
42:25we as keepers are going to stay there for as long as we need to to settle the girls in
42:29not only to their new home but also to bond them and to get them used to their new uh barn mates no
42:35and we'll hopefully fill the gap in their lives that they need
42:38by having other elephants around them he's coming too i don't think we'll ever get over
42:44them leaving i think they are a massive part of our lives but it's all about giving them the best
42:48future possible while pak boon and tangmo adapt to life in the monato safari park back in sydney
42:57preparations are well underway for the next residents to move into the now empty elephant habitat once our
43:04keepers return from monato safari park and helping pack boon and tangmo settle in our focus will
43:10really shift to what's happening later in the year here which is hari the greater one horn rhino
43:15and three water buffalo are coming from taronga western plains zoo so hari is about four years old
43:20now and he's definitely it's time for him to leave his mum and dad uh so he needs to you know move
43:27off and find his own territory in his own space so it is really um quite lovely timing so he'll be moving
43:32here later in the year and our elephant keepers will be we'll be looking after him and the water buffalo
43:38it's too early to say whether these new residents will call taronga home for the next hundred years
43:45as well but irrespective they have some pretty big shoes to fill
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