Calgary: The Calgary Zoo's male elephant, named Spike, is presently on his direction to his new home at Busch Gardens in Florida, authorities said on Tuesday.

Handlers say that Spike was securely stacked on Tuesday morning.

He will be joined by a full group of elephant specialists incorporating a veterinarian and elephant handlers from both Busch Gardens and the Calgary Zoo for the term of his excursion.

The transport container is followed by close-circuit Polaroids and is additionally temperature regulated.

Authorities said they might be moving him to Busch Gardens once again on July 23.

Calgary Zoo authorities say they picked Busch Gardens due to its work with and protection exertions for Asian elephants and the relationship it has with the VP of Zoological Operations, Jeff Andrews.

The zoo's three female elephants, Kamala, Swarna and Maharani will move to the Smithsonian's National Zoo's recently advanced 'Elephant Trails' show and will be acquainted with four other Asian elephants presently living there.