Belle, an elephant from Riverbanks Zoo and Garden, arrived at her new home in Milwaukee on Wednesday morning.
The Milwaukee County Zoo welcomed Belle with a Facebook post, and are giving her some time to adjust to her new home.
According to the post, she was accompanied by three members of her care team who are working with the Milwaukee team on training. She has been eating, drinking and interacting with her enrichment barrel.
Belle will also meet new herd mates soon. The post reads: "Ruth, Brittany and Belle trumpeted upon her arrival and have been able to see each other. After Belle’s quarantine period, she'll be slowly introduced to Ruth and Brittany."
According to the post, the Elephant Care Center will be closed for several days to give Belle time to settle in.
That zoo recently opened a brand new, state-of-the-art elephant habitat -- Adventure Africa. The exhibit's 20,000 square foot indoor Elephant Care Center features a recreation room, individual stalls, and an expansive area for enrichment activities. There's also a nearly 2-acre outdoor yard with plenty of room to roam.
In June, it was announced that Belle and another elephant, Robin, would be leaving the zoo to find a new herd and to make room for a new rhino exhibit.
Robin passed away unexpectedly before moving.
Belle came to Riverbanks from Columbus Zoo in 2001.
Following Belle's departure, Riverbanks plans to re-introduce and breed Southern white rhinos at the Zoo — a species last seen at Riverbanks in 1989. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) estimates less than 22,000 individuals remain in the wild most of which are found in the grasslands of southern Africa. Northern white rhinos are now extinct in the wild because of poaching.