Auckland Zoo's new elephant, Anjalee, enjoys a pat while in quarantine on Niue.
The 8-year-old Asian elephant is spending 90 days on the island, before she travels to Auckland to keep 32-year-old female elephant Burma company.
Image 1 of 9: Eight-year-old Anjalee left the Pinnawala elephant orphanage in Sri Lanka in March. After her 90-day quarantine, she will live in Auckland Zoo to join 32-year-old Burma.
Anjalee is the first of two elephants due from Sri Lanka, and arrived in Niue last month on a C-130 Hercules after a 30-hour journey.
Zoo spokeswoman Jane Healy said Anjalee had settled in well after her tiring trip, and had taken a liking to coconuts, apples and elephant grass.
