I just adopted Artie for my grandson for Christmas. So far we have adopted Nosey (for my other grandson) and Donna for my son-in-law. My famliy gets very excited and happy every time someone gets an adoption certificate.
Seeing Artie next to Flora really puts perspective on his size ! What a beautiful gentle giant. Thank you to all the people at the Sanctuary who make their happy lives possible and thanks for sharing these moments.
They can't be together unless he is neutered or they know for sure that the females are no longer fertile. The sanctuary is not into breeding elephants into captivity, which is deeply unethical. Sorry zoo lovers.
Incredibly happy for Arte and Flora. Hopefully they will spend many years talking through the fence line and developing their friendship. Arte will be exploring the lush fields, and learning how to be his true self that he has always deserved to be. Thank you EST for giving him his best life.❤❤🐘🐘
This is so sweet! Artie is a real "gentle man" in every sense of the word! He truly is a gentle giant. And Flora behaved like the lady she is. Even gave Artie a little curtsy!
What a beautiful interaction to watch! Elephants are so amazing and the connections they make with part of their herd or other elephants is so similar to humans!
Oh my goodness that was precious to watch. Artie is rather excited but in control. Flora has always been so self possessed and even she had t take a step back from Artie's intense interest. VERY sweet. I like that TES is allowing inter species' and male/female interactions. Well done.
The female in this video is Flora. :) Readers can always check the video title and video description, and we can recall that Nosey's tusks are longer than Flora's, and that Nosey is small by comparison.
The other females had the same reaction. In their videos, it was as if they thought "Oh, my! What a magnificent bull! I better take it easy around him." Having been taken captive as calves, he is likely the first bull, or one of the few, the females have ever seen, unless they were forced to breed by former owners in their pasts. Imagine what it's like to see your first bull in your lifetime. They *_were_* impressed!
I think that's the way it should be as they are there to retire from public viewing. To be honest I would rather see natural interactions like this than some "zookeeper" forced 'amusement' even if I have to view this on film. Best wishes from Scotland 🏴
In his history, an owner had his tusks removed. Sometimes it's due to serious infection or other dental/tusk health reason, and sometimes for reason of safety. I believe the website article about Artie said that the reason wasn't known.
@@CHERABBAGIRL26 It's my understanding that the surgery to remove tusks is high risk, not only because they have to use anesthesia to put the elephant "under," but for other reasons as well. That is a chief reason why it isn't done more often.
@@cacatr4495 well, no, I can’t do the math. Will he try and mate her? She’s not up for that kind of thing, right? Will the sanctuary encourage or allow mating and breeding to take place? Will he go rogue if he comes into musth and he knows ladies are around and he can’t get to them?
@@cynthiafritze7418 Perhaps I could have worded that better. Rest assured I wasn't trying to be sassy at all, I just didn't want to be blunt about the fact that he *_really_* appreciates the ladies. I believe he would try to mate with them if he were allowed, which won't happen because TES isn't in the business of making babies, so they won't be in the same habitat. There's nothing for him to go rogue on, considering he enjoys his habitat alone. They say he's a respectful fellow.
Artie is a bull (on the left), while Flora is a female, so they can't be together. Flora already has a herd of two other females, and Artie will soon get a bull buddy who is arriving in 2024. Artie would want to make babies with the females, and TES, being a sanctuary, isn't in the business of making captive baby elephants. Bulls can also present a safety risk to females on occasion, which is why Flora instinctively backed up a lot when it looked like Artie was wanting to come through the fence. Bulls are very powerful, females are too, but bulls much more so.
A former owner removed his tusks for reasons unknown. Dental problems like infections with tusks can develop or maybe that owner had safety fears in light of his being a bull. The TES article about him said they didn't know the reason. They have said that Artie is respectful.
Artie, the elephant on the left, is a bull, albeit his tusks were removed years ago by a past owner. Grown bulls typically don't hang out in female herds, but generally only visit them for mating, unless they've been neutered/gelded/castrated as another bull elsewhere was, named Bo, when he was young, a bull that resides at Elephant Refuge North America (ERNA) in the US state of Georgia. Bo hangs out with females Tarra and Mundi primarily because he was gelded long ago. Bulls are independently minded, they are happy doing their own thing, and there can be safety issues. In the Wild, bulls can create looser bonds of friendship with other bulls and migrate together, herds that tend to be shorter term, not lifelong like the females make. The elephant on the right, Flora, is a female. She is already part of a female herd. More bulls will be coming to TES (even in 2024), and that will give Artie an opportunity to have bull buddies. The females at TES do tend to be in herds. This video is just a visit between Artie and Flora.
