A lot can go wrong when animals have to be airlifted to a new habitat, as was sadly proven in July, when eleven rhinos died in Kenya, shortly after they had arrived in the country by air. An unsuitable transport container is said to have been partially to blame for the stress the sensitive animals were exposed to. Earlier this year, Intradco showed the world how rhinos should be shipped. In spring the live animals transportation specialist, a subsidiary of Chapman Freeborn, flew Bertus, a 2.5 t Indian rhino, from Edinburgh Zoo via Luxemburg to Surabaya, East Java (Indonesia), where it is on reproduction duty. The same job is on for Eric, a black hook-lipped rhino who landed in Tanzania after a 16,000 km flight from California via Liège, Doha and Entebbe.
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