As an age person, it is the fact that some will end up in the help of a helped life. However, humans are not the only ones who receive geriatric care anymore. The Spanish zoo helps elephant age with graceful life programs.
The Barcelona Zoo is home to more than 1,400 animals from 315 different species. Animals are given their rooms to roam over the property of nearly 35 acres. The Barcelona zoo is true -not available.
In addition to housing of various animals, the zoo also promotes endangered animal awareness and climate change threats.
However, the most incredible is that the Barcelona Zoo has gone up and out with the oldest, elephant. An elephant that has met or far beyond how long they should stay in capture is receiving major care so they can live longer.
Unlike other facilities that may meet the minimum care standards, the Barcelona Zoo ensures that their two elephants are constantly monitored, receive age -appropriate care, and receive all the mental stimuli they need to keep their minds fit. Therefore, it does not come out of the possibility that, without unexpected illness, these two elephants can live for years.
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Help the age of elephants gracefully enhance their life expectancy in arrest
With current care methods for older elephants, The main cause of death is degenerative joint disease. This is usually caused by a long period of time on the hard surface. Since many zoos have concrete or packaged earth, this can worsen degenerative joint disease and accelerate aging.
In addition, Elephants living in the wild can live 70 years old before they die. In the arrest, it is much more common for them to live only 40 years old.
The reduction of life expectancy is due to elephants who do not have enough space to exercise, not given enough diet, lack of social interaction with other elephants, lack of mental stimulation, and overall stress.
With all this considered at the Barcelona Zoo, Zookeepers can ensure that both elephants of aging in their care, Susi, 52, and Buly, 40, will be guarded with the highest standard.
Elephant walking soil is soft to help maintain degenerative joint disease in the bay. In view of their age, the elephant lost their last set of molar. Therefore, they are given softer food to eat. Both elephants were given daily pedicures to counteract the infection in their feet. Susi and Buly are monitored to make sure they get enough mental stimulation to keep their brains active.
By following this regimen, hope is to give the best life partner a life, far from being in the wild. As much as zokeepers will be able to set two free elephants after they are kept in arrest, as they are arrested in the wild as a younger elephant and used in a circus and then as an exhibition at another zoo, returning it at this time will be a death sentence, according to Padilla Pilar.
“Sending them back to nature would be a mistake. Most likely they will not survive.” – Padilla Pillar
Therefore, both two -year -old elephant will continue to live a spoiled life in a facility that takes into account their needs, enabling them to grow well and enjoy life from just existing.
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The aging elephant teaches zokeepers about how they deal with sadness
In addition to keeping an elephant, Zookeepers can also see directly how elephants handle sadness. This is because the end of last year, their friend, Yoyo, died at the age of 54.
The zoo, in conjunction with the University of Barcelona, began to observe the elephant to understand the grief process they had when one of its packs died for future studies. However, this study will be different from others, as it specifically focuses on how elephants are sad when an elephant is not a family dead.
As the oldest of all the elephants, Yoyo is a one -time trio leader. After his death, Susi and Buly didn’t eat. However, today the elephant has shown their resilience. They both eat normally again and have turned to each other in their sadness, so close.
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More interestingly, with Susi now the oldest, he has taken the role of the Matriarch that Yoyo has held.
What this study will show is still visible. But it is clear that elephants are very smart, social, and empathic animals that should be old with “dignity” and comfortably, compared to only exhibitions or attractions that can be thrown away to make people money.