An elderly elephant has been reunited with her daughter and granddaughter after a photograph of the three touching trunks through metal bars was published around the world. In the wild, although bull elephants will tend to leave the herd to form new relationships, female elephants tend to remain with their mothers, and this reunion was part of a program to slowly recreate this natural process in herds being held in captivity. The reunion happened when the 39-year-old elephant, Pori, was moved from her former home in the capital city of Berlin to the Bergzoo in the city of Halle, in Germany’s east-central state of Saxony-Anhalt where she reunited with her 19-year-old daughter Tana after 12 years of separation. The grandmother also met her granddaughters Tamika, 4 and Elani, 1. The photograph was taken during a moment when the elephant house was closed to allow the separated family to once again get to know each other, and as the picture showed they wasted no time. In fact, the reunion went so well, that they have now been reunited without bars as this heartwarming video shows.