The herd, which also includes Yindi’s mother and grandmother, was given plenty of time to do this. The deceased elephant remained in the enclosure until the other elephants were no longer present. “That can take 1 hour, sometimes 48 hours. Now it took quite a long time, yesterday afternoon around two o’clock we saw that they had said goodbye,” says Verdonk. He is head of animal care at the zoo.
Elephant enclosure not adapted after Yindi’s death, ‘sad, but we did what we could’
