One of the three elephants at Johannesburg Zoo at the centre of a heated legal battle as animal welfare advocates push for their release into a sanctuary, arguing that their captivity is a form of cruelty.
The last three elephants still in a traditional South African zoo entered their enclosure in single file, fruit and vegetables scattered on the ground to encourage natural foraging.
For visitors to the popular Johannesburg Zoo, it was a chance to see Africa's largest land animal in real life.
But for animal welfare campaigners, it is a scene of cruelty that they have petitioned the courts to end by ordering the trio's release into a rewilding sanctuary.
In a case supported by international elephant experts, the campaigners told a court in May that observation showed that Lammie, aged 47, Ramadiba, 28, and Mopane, 26, were distressed and depressed.
