Asian elephant in Argentina packs trunk for long trip to Brazil

A veterinarian offers apples to 54-year-old Asian elephant Mara in her enclosure at the former city zoo now known as Ecopark in Buenos Aires, Argentina February 18, 2020. February 18, 2020. REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Mara the elephant is packing for what may be the final trip of her 54-year life spent globe-trotting from India to Germany before joining circuses in Montevideo and Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she has been for the last 25 years.

Now she is readying to say goodbye, before a 2,700-kilometers (1,600-mile) trip from Buenos Aires to a new home near the city of Chapada dos Guimarães in Brazil, a vast specially designed sanctuary for elephants like Mara.