After spending a month in quarantine, Bozie the Asian elephant has joined her herdmates at the National Zoo and is now on display to the public.
Bozie, 37, was introduced visually to fellow elephants Ambika and Shanthi on June 21, about a month after she arrived from the Baton Rouge Zoo. Bozie and Shanthi previously spent time together as calves at the Elephant Orphanage Department of Wildlife Conservation in Sri Lanka. A few days later, the female pachyderms met again through a barrier then spent time together in the same enclosure. Interactions between the elephants “continues to go well,” Elephant Trails curator Tony Barthel said in a release.
Now Bozie is available to publicly gawk at in the zoo’s Elephant Community Center or along the vast Elephant Trails. No word on when Bozie will show off her artistic talents to the people of Washington.