Elephants on Board : A Journey to Remember - the fifth estate 

Your comment made me go check to make sure I hadn't missed his passing. It was mostly in a past tense so it seemed either he died or stopped helping animals.

@@butterflyforeve alive and well

I pray Lucy is NOW HAPPY & playful in CA. NO MORE COLD ice and snow. I pray n JESUS Name the elephant adapts well in the NEW environment on the West coast.

@@donnaeckhardt6960 But Lucy is still in the zoo ! They don’t want to release her in a Sanctuary! Poor Lucy😢

Where is Lucy now ?!

Well said! Thank you!

Yes, an amazing man. I'll never forget he always signed off The Price is Right with 'Please remember to have your pets spayed or neutered thank you'.

I hope he leaves all his money to PAWS when he goes

That figure was spent to fly Maggie from Alaska to California. These are different elephants. You are thinking of Maggie that was flown from Alaska.

I am from Edmonton I would love to see Lucy go to paws but unfortunately Lucy is not well enough to travel according to vets Lucy would not survive the trip and also she no longer use to being around other elephants so their is no telling how she would react

ILOVECHILE I went to PAWS (where theToronto elephants moved) last year and the owner said Lucy is absolutely well enough to move. Unfortunately Edmonton doesn't seem to care about her, and her story beans my heart.

@@ILOVECHILE they are lying to you guys about her not being a humans elephant. And even if she was afraid and not able to live with the other elephants, I'm sure allowances would be made so that she could still live at Paws and get to live in a natural setting. She has no choice but to be a human elephant at this point because that's her only choice. And I am calling bs on being too sick to travel, they are being selfish and only thinking of themselves.

There was a new medical examination done on Lucy in November and unfortunately the news is not good she has deteriorated to the point that she is in palliative care now. Moving her is no longer an option. It breaks my heart to be saying this but the kindest thing to do now would be to end her suffering by putting her to sleep

@@ILOVECHILE и это, достаточно ещё не старая 🐘, которая находилась постоянно под наблюдением врачей!? ДА ЭТО ПРОСТО ЗАВЕДОМОЕ УБИЙСТВО, ЛИШЬ БЫ ТОЛЬКО ЕЁ НЕ ОТДАВАТЬ! 😡! может нужно было предложить выкупить дорого её???

Your right! There are now more and more elephant sanctuaries- good inrsxlike The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee! God bless😉💝💝💝

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Aussie Flag actually that’s exactly what it bought him & nothing more.

Yes! Thank you Bob! 💕🐘

I think the latter is what they have in mind.

Both

That vet is a Greedy man for the money & profit. They never think of the welfare of the poor LUCY. I hope one day those cruel people who imprisoned Lucy MUST Suffer heavily too.

He is lying, he doesn't want to loose his job.

He looks delusional yeah.

Bobby Paluga PAWS is amazing! You can go on an elegant tour there for $300. I did it last year and it was awesome to see how the elephants (and tigers and other animals they've rescued) are living.

@@rebeculus how is the tour done?

Desire Love oops. I didn't mean "elegant." Last year when I did it, you book on advance and I think it costs $300. They held them once every few months. It starts at 8 or 9 AM, and they give you a tour of the various elephant areas and talk about each of them and where they're from, etc. It included lunch, which was delicious. And the coolest part for me was when they did a demonstration of protected contact, which is a procedure for how they and a lot of other sanctuaries interact with elephants and do vet care, etc. The other coolest part is that the co-founder gives the tour and he was amazing.

I wonder the same thing.

Chele I don't know about these elephants specifically, but many elephants in North American zoos that weren't born in captivity were likely bought from countries in Africa or Asia as babies - so, separated from their mom when they were still nursing probably (since they often nurse till they're like 4-5) and taken to a zoo. I don't know if any zoos in North America do that anymore, but Zimbabwe has sold tens of baby elephants to China in recent years, for zoos. Heartbreaking, because female elephants spend their whole lives with their mom and sisters and aunts, etc. And all elephants have life long relationships with each other. So they're basically traumatized when taken as upping elephants from their family.

The guy riding the elephant was talking and saying that at 1st he didn't want to let go of his elephant (that's when he was riding her) but changed his mind when he got more education and information. The pictures of him riding the elephant is when he was younger and a zoo handler before he went to work for Paws. He hasn't done that in many years.

It’s just an image of the fact that we’ll learn all our life

The 2600 acres is divided into sections, one for African elephants, one for Asian elephants, one for quarantined elephants, one for TB elephants, one for Nosey, etc. so I don't know how many acres each group has, or how many Nosey has. But it isn't 2600, that's the total.

They flew Maggie from Alaska to California. That arrangement wasn't for these elephants.

Mary Edel - The TES may not have had room to take three elephants at the same time.

Also, PAWS is warmer than Tennessee.