Tulsa Zoo has launched the primary look of Billy and Tina — the L.A. Zoo elephants who had been secretly transferred to Oklahoma at nighttime this week.

Regardless of many protests and movie star outrage, Billy and Tina have efficiently made it to their new house in Tulsa — the place they’ll spend the subsequent a number of weeks constructing bonds with their new care workforce and their fellow pachyderms.

Tulsa Zoo explains of their Insta put up that the couple will probably be beginning off their welcome in quarantine — which is finest for his or her social wants and properly being.

Including that the quarantine interval is an efficient first step for assembly their new associates and “it permits Billy and Tina to see, odor and listen to the opposite elephants from a distance as they acclimate.” They will not be accessible for some time for human guests to see, past the occasional glimpse of their new digs.

The caption says the 2 might be heard trumpeting in pleasure after they had been launched to their Elephant Protect Barn.

The elephant’s new casa reveals particulars of the 26-hour highway journey the pair endured — together with breaks each couple of hours for hay, cantaloupe, romaine lettuce and water — describing the elephants as “calm,” saying they “ate and drank properly at every cease.”

Cher and several other different celebs signed a letter urging L.A. Mayor Karen Bass to assist Billy and Tina, however their efforts had been ignored when the animals had been transferred in secret at 1:30 AM Tuesday. Final week, a decide refused to subject a short lived restraining order to dam the switch.