Our Elephants are very special indeed. Bully and Three are our adult male and female and came to Glen Afric after the Kruger Park Cull of 1991. On the 31st December 2007 their daughter Hanna was born on. Three weeks later the Brooker's received a call from the Kruger Park saying that they had found an orphan female calf that had been swept away from her mother in the heavy rains in January 2008.
She had been found just of the southern boarder of the Kruger Park near the Crocodile River. The park asked if the Brooker's would take her on as they knew that Three had just had a baby. Immediate action was taken and Marty was flown by plane to Glen Afric to be introduced to Three, arriving on the 22nd of January.
This is the first know time that a wild elephant had been introduced to a captive elephant. The Brooker's pick up Marty and gave her a bottle, lots of love and warmth and introduced her to Three. This was a very tense moment as they didn't know if she would accept Marty or not. However Three took one look at her and wrapped her trunk around Marty and welcomed her into her family, since then, Three, Hanna and Marty have been inseparable.