Elephants in Auckland celebrate World Elephant Day with colourful ice cakes
Celebrating in style.
Two Asian elephants at Auckland Zoo celebrated World Elephant Day with some of the fanciest-looking ice cakes you’ve ever seen.
Burma and Anjalee were the grateful recipients of two jumbo ice block cakes created by the team at Auckland Zoo, who also encouraged people to wear grey for the day, Sunday August 12.
There’s nothing grey about these treats, however.
Burma and Anjalee reacted by “trumpeting, kicking, crushing and eating” the colourful treats.
World Elephant Day was started to bring attention to the urgent plight of Asian and African elephants, which are threatened by the escalation of poaching, habitat loss, human-elephant conflict and mistreatment in captivity among other things.
It looks as though Auckland Zoo’s resident elephants had a lovely day though, with the weather offering great conditions for a splash.
Happy World Elephant Day, Burma and Anjalee.
