Dhunja and Yhetto are joining two other elderly elephants at a retirement home in the Netherlands.
Belfast Zoo's two remaining Asian elephants are getting ready for retirement in the Netherlands.Last year, Belfast City Council gave permission for them to travel to Royal Burgers' Zoo in Arnhem.
He said the elephants had arrived from zoos in Germany and before that one of them worked in a logging camp, the other in a circus. The first elephant, Daisy, arrived in 1934 and was walked from the docks to the zoo's site on Antrim Road, a distance of around six miles.
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