Zurich Zoo will on Saturday open it's new 57-million-franc (£38.8-million, $63.5-million) Kaeng Krachan elephant park to visitors, hailing what it calls a “new era” in care for its six pachyderms.
The 11,000-square-metre park features six water basins for the elephants to swim in.
Visitors can get an aquarium view of them under the water in one of the basins, which has a glass wall.
The new space is designed to give the elephants conditions more closely resembling their natural environment.
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That is so cool! I've seen lots of pictures of elephants in fairly shallow water pouring the water over themselves. I never imagined them swimming. Thanks for this.
ReplyDeleteI hope they use their trunks as snorkels. I think it's Dublin zoo where the elephant enclosure runs the perimeter of the entire zoo. They get a good long distance to have a walk and lots of things to see, the only minor problem is if you've got kids that want to see elephants, they could be anywhere!
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