Quarantine animals practically are not felt. They traditionally receive 150 kilograms of fruits, vegetables, cereals and other foods, as well as hay and bamboo – a day, exercise, walk into the spacious courtyard of the circus, swimming. However, one serious problem has appeared – the inability to Hiking.
– Previously I have always taken the elephants on nature. But now to make this impossible. Because of the constant walking on asphalt in the yard they go bad feet and aching joints. To solve the problem is a sandbox, since the padded surface eases the burden. Besides after bathing the elephants love to roll in the sand, and then to itch each other. Thus they clean off dead skin, the extra layer of skin. It is a kind of Spa, – said the trainer Andrei Dementiev-Kornilov.
For construction of facilities for the elephants took a few truckloads of sand. No sooner had the trainer tell them about the problem on social networks, there have been caring people. A car of sand was brought in, for example, a local resident Artem Khripunov.
I work as a guide, I love Sochi, Sochi circus and, of course, animals. When I heard about the problem of elephants, thought, and where it is possible to take sand? At the construction site! Began to ring up developers. My appeal was responded to by the creators of the tourist complex “Ministerial lakes”. They call it the city of his childhood, and what childhood is without a circus? So I decided to help the elephants – said the Sochi tour guide Anna Kunin.
in Addition to the sand residents will have help and money. Almost 20 thousand rubles was spent on equipment sandbox. Sochi circus tent provided that the elephants were under the roof, and in case of rain, the sand is not eroded. Their sandbox Margot and pretti have already tried, and they loved it.
Speaking before the announcement of the quarantine, the elephants regularly walked near the circus and on the Sochi waterfront. Naturally, in the presence of the trainer – winner of prestigious awards and competitions, honoured artist of Russia Andrey Dementiev-Kornilov. As he told the correspondent of “RG”, pretti and Margaux five years ago, has already arrived in Sochi.
pretty 30 years, and Margot is ten. Elephants live the same as people. Of course, a hundred years is ideal, but in a circus family Kornilov was a case where the elephant lived to be 84 years, which is an indicator of longevity. In General, their average age is 60 to 70 years.
pretty came from Thailand, and Margo arrived from China, – says Andrey Dementyev-Kornilov. We call them mother and daughter because Margo of five elephants in the troupe chose pretti and all the time to pursue it. The older the elephant willingly took on the role of a mother quite cope with it and observes the behavior of his baby girl.
According to him, Margo is a talented elephant. Stay for six months in a circus withemie she learned quite a lot of tricks that others was difficult. For example, headstand and on the bottle. Margo is very playful, hooligan, it loves the whole circus, she won everyone’s heart in the circus – and backstage and the arena.
the Elephants arrived from Moscow in Kislovodsk, where Sochi was on tour, in a special truck on low-bed trailers. The trucks are fitted with heating, water – everything you need for year-round travel. It took a total of about three days.
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Famous Russian circus dynasty Kornilov for almost 180 years. Over the years, trainers have managed to achieve incredible results, and some tricks made it into the Guinness Book of records
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