(12 Aug 2024)
CROATIA ELEPHANT BIRTHDAY
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Veliki Brijun, Croatia – 9 August 2024
1. Lanka the elephant walking around her enclosure, keeper in foreground
2. Close of Lanka’s face and trunk
3. Various of keeping filling ball with lettuce
4. Lanka playing with ball
5. Lanka eating lettuce
6. Various of information panel with pictures and text about Lanka, visitors looking at it
7. Lanka walking over logs inside her enclosure
8. Various of Lanka being fed by handlers with visitors watching
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Francisca Braga Lopez, biologist and expert for animal protection:
"Actually, elephants in the wild, they move in herds, female herds – and the male only come when it’s the pairing time (mating time). So they are not used to having males and females together their whole lives. We see by her reactions, we know her behaviour, we say that she’s happy, because she got used to all of us. So, she plays, she kind of fools around with us."
10. Wide of tourist pathway, family with children walking towards camera
11. Zebra in park
12. Visitors riding electric cart
13. Various of zebras inside their enclosures
14. Visitors passing by an ostrich inside enclosure
15. Close of ostrich
16. Wide of sea
17. Close of ostrich
18. Various of visitors looking at sulphur-crested cockatoo, Koki, in his caged enclosure
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Sanja Drandic Gricki, Brijuni National Park guide:
"Tito drove around with his numerous guests, so you can imagine, next to Tito, Sophia Loren, who’s still alive, the Italian actress. Gina Lollobrigida, Queen Elizabeth, she was also here, Indira Gandhi, and many many others. So, inside this building we actually have three exhibitions, downstairs there are 200 stuffed animals – so many of those animals came as a gift to Josip Broz Tito, and they all died of natural causes."
20. Visitors inside museum, with antelope heads on walls
21. Various of dioramas with stuffed cheetahs, antelopes, lions, and chimpanzees
22. Visitors looking at photographs on display, showing Tito with various celebrities and heads of state at Brijuni
23. Wide of photo exhibition
24. Child sitting in front of info panel in English, titled "Importance of Elephants in the Ecosystem"
25. Close of Lanka’s eye
26. Lanka and keeper
27. Wide of visitors
28. Various of keeper maintaining Lanka’s feet
29. Wide of visitors
30. Keepers bringing out birthday cake for Lanka, Lanka eating it
STORYLINE:
LEADIN:
Lanka the elephant has celebrated her birthday with an enormous cake and a chorus of children singing for her at a national park in Croatia.
Now aged 52, she’s lived at the park for 50 years and is one of the best known and loved animals there.
STORYLINE:
Just days before World Elephant Day, Lanka had something to celebrate.
She turned 52 years-old on Friday.
Her home is Croatia’s Brijuni national park.
Brijuni is an archipelago of islands in Croatia’s northern Adriatic off the coast of Istria with a long and rich history.
In 1983 most of the island was turned into a national park open to the public, and exotic animals were kept there as a tourist attraction.
One of these was Lanka, a female elephant from India who arrived here as a two-year-old calf, a gift from Indira Gandhi in 1974.
Her keepers spend between 12 and 20 hours with her every day to keep her company.
She is the only elephant here after an older male she lived with, called Sony, died in 2010.
The keepers say she probably does not miss male company.
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