A young female African elephant named Fredzia, who resides at the Warsaw Zoo in Poland, will be testing out a cannabis-extract oil soon.

It was this year that the zoo lost another elephant named Erna back in March. She was the largest female and elder of the herd, leaving Fredzia in mourning for months.

Zoo keepers noticed an immediate change in Frezia’s behaviour. “Fredzia reacted strangely when she saw Erna’s body. She was really excited,” Dr Agnieszka Czujkowska, head of the zoo’s Animal Rehabilitation Department, told the BBC. “But you could see that she was also grieving actually, she was also depressed.”

According to the zoo keppers, Fredzia has displayed signs of stress since the death of Erna. It can take months or even years for elephants to cope with te loss of an elder.
“This is a huge game-changer in every elephant group. Elephants might have behavioural problems when the structure of a group changes,” Dr Czujkowska said.

Dr. Czujkowska and her colleagues have launched a project to check whether cannabis-extract oil will reduce anxiety in the zoo’s animals.

The Polish zoo’s elephants will be the first animals to be given the CBD oil. “When Erna passed away, everything changed. I don’t think Fredzia was ready for such a big change,” Dr Czujkowska said. “Fredzia is always thinking about what Buba is doing now, before that she was more calm.”


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