(25 Mar 2025)
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Buenos Aires, Argentina – 25 March 2025
1. Tilt down from sky and trees to elephant standing in Ecopark’s enclosure
2. Close of ‘Pupy,’ the female elephant that lives in Buenos Aires’s Ecopark
3. Pupy standing and moving her trunk
4. Close of Pupy’s face
5. Wide of Pupy and her shelter
6. Pupy’s veterinary, Maria Jose Cazantariti
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Maria Jose Cazantariti, veterinarian at Buenos Aires Ecopark:
"Pupy represents the end of the era of the old fauna collection of the Buenos Aires Zoo. Those were animals placed in here to be exhibited to those who paid a ticket to see them. So this is very symbolic for us, it’s like a closing on the period of the transformation from the zoo to the ecopark."
8. Pupy walking around transport crate
9. Pupy entering the crate
10. Various of caretakers treating Pupy with food
11. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): Maria Jose Cazantariti, veterinarian and in charge of animal wellbeing at Buenos Aires Ecopark:
"What happened with the cage is that she enters inside it, she receives training, she is relaxed, but as soon as she realizes that the cage will be closed, she moves out her left leg, she does not move at all. She just extends her leg backwards and that makes closing the cage for us impossible."
12. Tilt up from trunk hanging low to Pupy’s face
13. Pupy walking away
14. Pupy seen from behind as she stands in front of the cage.
STORYLINE:
Pupy, the last African elephant remaining at the former Buenos Aires Zoo has begun training for her journey to an elephant sanctuary in Mato Grosso, Brazil.
Maria Jose Cazantariti, a veterinarian at Buenos Aires Ecopark, said her departure marks an important step in the transformation of the park, as this elephant is one of the last animals held from the collection of the Buenos Aires Zoo.
During the past eight years the park has already relocated more than 1,000 animals, aiming to maintain only those native to Argentina and improve their living conditions.
Pupy is the last one that is planned to be relocated, while other species like giraffes and hippopotamuses will remain in the park due to difficulties in transporting them.
However, transporting an elephant that has never left her enclosure is no easy task.
Pupy has spent her entire life in captivity, and her transition is made even more challenging by the loss of her longtime companion and guide, Kuky, who passed away on October 22, 2024.
The iron crate designed for her journey—also used for training—was specifically built to ensure her safe transport across nearly 1864 miles (3,000 km.) to the Elephant Sanctuary in Brazil, located in the rolling hills of Chapada dos Guimarães.
There, she will reunite with Mara, a former Ecopark companion, as well as Guillermina, Rana, Bambi, and Maia—Asian elephants rescued from circuses and zoos across Latin America.
Pupy previously lived alongside Mara and spent 30 years with Kuky in confined quarters within the Palace of the Elephants, a structure built in 1904 as a replica of a Hindu temple.
The zoo was initially a private collection of animals and in 1888, it officially became a zoo modeled to be gardens designed to mimic the architectural styles of the animals’ native regions.
AP Video by Cristian Kovadloff
Production Almudena Calatrava
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