We really had a once in a lifetime experience this morning. The team from Zimbabwe did an amazing job and everything went so smoothly. The elephant was darted from a helecopter, picked up by crane onto the back of a flatbed truck. Brought to a nearby field where another truck with different compartments were waiting. There, it was pulled by truck and cables into the first compartment, then given some medicine to wake it up. I was actually surprised that it woke up so fast. Literally from being passed out to on its feet and alert within a matter of a minute. After it was up, they were able to coerce it towards the front compartment which was already on the back of a tractor trailer truck. And then within a few minutes, it was off to its new home in Kafue National Park.
I grew up watching National Geographic and similar shows thinking how fun it would be to do work like that. Well, this morning, the kids and I got to see it first hand. Great way to spend a Saturday morning!
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