Betty Upon arrival at The ARC

These two pictures are when Betty first arrived.

All new arrivals are housed in a separte room with access to an outside pen. Regardless what the reputation of the elephant we want to find out for ourselves. In this particular case as we have had before Betty had a severe behavior problem.

The pen is solid concrete on two sides and the front is constructed of 5 inch pipe 4 feet in the ground in concrete. Even with this strength Betty got a running start and hit the fence and made it vibrate. This might give some of you so called elephant experts what kind of power these animals have when they want to use it.