No one is spared from old age. Her name is Noor Jehan, she is an elephant and has lived for a long time in Karachi, in the zoo of the largest and most populous city in Pakistan. Relatively recently she suffers from ailments and began to behave in a strange way: headbutts against trees, trembling legs that barely supported her...
Noor Jehan's strange movements alarmed his caretakers, who did not know what was happening to him. Would pachyderma be going crazy, as legends say happens with elephants when they are very years old? Would he want to take the last trip to the secret elephant cemetery?
The zoo alerted several veterinarians and to consult the problem. Two specialists from Austria and Egypt went to Karachi to examine the elephant and have already discovered what happens to it: it suffers from arthritis, that joint disease so common in humans.
Poor Noor suffers severe pain, and her chances of survival are 50%, although she has already started treatment to control it. "He can barely move," one of the veterinarians said. In addition, they have found a skin disease that could be due to a fungal infection.
If she comes out of this and improves, her caregivers plan to move her during her last days to a quieter place so that she lives more peacefully.
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