Adorable Moment Elephant Touches Trunks With Her Daughter And Granddaughter At German Zoo After 12 Years’ Separation

The grandmother also met her granddaughters Tamika, aged four, and Elani, one, for the first time.

Thirty-nine-year-old elephant Pori was moved from her former home in Berlin to the Bergzoo in the eastern city of Halle, where she was reunited with her 19-year-old daughter Tana after 12 years of separation.

In the wild, bull elephants leave the herd to find a mate but female elephants tend to remain with their mothers for life.  The reunion of the family is part of a programme to slowly recreate this natural process in herds being held in captivity.

The grandmother also met her granddaughters Tamika, aged four, and Elani, one, for the first time.

This moving image shows the adorable moment an elephant touched trunks with her daughter and granddaughter at a zoo in Germany after being separated for 12 years.

For now, Pori is in a separate enclosure from her offspring but in the next few days they will spend time together in the outer section to get accustomed to each other.
The Zoo director, Dr Dennis Muller, said: ‘Pori’s arrival in Halle is an important step in modern elephant husbandry. ‘In the future, all elephant herds in European zoos should be cared for in such natural family structures. Today we have come a great deal closer to this goal.’