Burma The Elephant Is Arriving In Adelaide Today!

Sourth Australia's first elephant arrival in more than 30 years is in transit to Adelaide before heading out to Monarto National Park

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah mixed one or two
point three Max. Now in the morning, where's Ana Mandarelli
filling in? We're here thanks to Chemists Warehouse eighteen degrees
already sunny twenty six in adelaid today. That was our
soundtrack of the day. Let's get it started by the
Black Eyed Peace featuring us at the end from the

(00:21):
album Ella Funk. Why were we playing that?

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Rosa funny you say that, Max. It's a big day
in Adelaide today. We have got a mammoth VP arrival.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Huge. This is a massive celebrity all.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
The way from New Zealand.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Oh Lord Lord, Mel Gibson.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Our very first elephant to arrive in South Australia in
thirty years. I know Burmer, the gorgeous Asian elephant from
New Zealand Auckland Zoo. Yes, not Memma, not mem It's
Burma and she is absolutely beautiful. I had the absolute

(01:02):
pleasure of meeting her earlier this year when I went
over to Auckland. You visited the elephant, Yes, yes, yes.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
I fod a nice little junkie.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
It was a tiny little junket. A couple of wineries. No,
we went straight to the zoom.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah. Sure.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
So she's arriving like so obviously you know this ginormous creature.
The preparation she is. The preparation that had to go
into transporting her from Auckland to adelaidies huge. They've been
for months and months training her in the crate that's
been custom built. So the crate is going on a

(01:41):
seven four seven and that's leaving Auckland this this morning,
I guess, and due to arrive in Adelaide around two thirty.
So once they get the crate onto a truck, the
truck will be leaving Adelaide Airport at around four point
thirty five o'clock. But geez, it's going to be a
wide load under police escort. And imagine all the roads

(02:02):
that are going to be closed. It's a warning to
everyone on the roads or anyone who wants to line
the route and actually say gooday. If you want to
Donald Bradman drive, then it's going Marrion Road, then it's
going Richmond Road, then glen Osmond Road's going Greenhill.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
It's going Greenhill in the middle of the valoh five
hundred in peak hour and you'll imagine the elephant's going
to be sitting there in peak this city, mate, Why
you're giving me this city in Auckland.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Oh, then the Southeastern Freeway, one of the tunnels is
going to be partially closed or reduced to one way
because it's such a wide load. And then off to
Minato Safari Park where she'll be in quarantine for thirty
days before the peeps can actually see her. And I've
got to say so, I actually we're getting two more
from Perth and two more from New South Wales. But

(02:52):
the Perth ones I went and visited as well.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Oh my god, all part of seven News. I don't know,
is this this station you work for? I'm happy for
I get like a junker to Henley Beach for the day. Pet.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
I was very very fortunate to meet them all. But
the Perth elephants are absolutely beautiful. Burma is next level,
the most gorgeous creature, the most engaging creature. She's had
her keepers look after her for like close to forty years. Right,

(03:26):
one of her keepers, well, he's been with her. He's
been with her since he was seventeen years old.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
I want to see if she'll remember you. Was she
send you down.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Do you think she would, because I've never ever could
you pay for me to go and see her? Comes
five elephants, five elephants, We're hopefully going to have a
little bit of a herd, don't think so. I don't know.
There's not going to be reproductive. No, it's not a
wo wongan funny kind of situation here. This is just
to have a little herd here because basically Burma's all

(03:58):
by herself. She lost her mate. Then Poutra must and
Permi in Perth lost their mate, lost the matriarch there.
So they're feeling especially Permi over in wa is feeling
very very lost.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
There's a lot of elephants just named like Gary Sheila.
All right, so those road closures is going to impact
you at about school pickup time.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
Right, Yeah, it's going to be chaotic school pickup end.
Well yeah, sort of the tail end of school pickup
and then enjoy that, yeah, have fun with that. But
you can you can also capitalize and line the route
like I say, and have a little look of your
first peak wave to Burma. You might see her drunk.
I don't know her drunk