WA news LIVE: Perth’s Permai dines like a queen on her jumbo voyage

Perth Zoo’s Permai the elephant has spent her first night on the road on her way to her new home at South Australia’s Monarto Safari Park.
She is almost halfway through the 2749-kilometre journey with her team of carers taking turns at the wheel.
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Thanks to their sporadic texts as they go in and out of reception, Perth Zoo have confirmed this morning that Permai is as well as can be expected.
She had a big breakfast of peanut butter sandwiches and watermelon this morning (maybe she ignores the veg, like a 37-year-old child?)
When the team stop for fuel and to check on her, she is apparently quite the sensation for onlookers at the roadhouses.
Her custom-made crate is designed to make her as comfortable as possible with mod cons including air-conditioning.
She’s just passed Cocklebiddy and is on track to reach her forever home tomorrow.
It’s sad to lose Permai following the death of Tricia in 2022, but she has struggled since Tricia’s death and will have a better life with more friends in her new home: female Burma moved there recently from New Zealand, and later in the year, her male Perth roommate Putra Mas will join them, as will two Asian elephants relocating there from Sydney’s Taronga Zoo.