(CNN) A 33-year-old orangutan who was granted 'legal personhood' in Argentina has been relocated to a new home in Wauchula, Florida.

Patti Ragan, director of the Center for Great Apes where Sandra the orangutan is now living, told CNN she has been "inquisitive, calm, engaged and interested in her new surroundings" since her arrival on Tuesday.

"She was shy when she first arrived, but once she saw the swings, toys, and grassy areas in her new home, she went out to explore," Ragan said in a press release.

The orangutan captured the world's attention when she was at the center of a 2015 Argentina court case.

Sandra, a 33-year old orangutan settling into her new home at the Center for Great Apes in Florida.

After living in captivity for 20 years at the Buenos Aires Zoo, Sandra was declared a "nonhuman being" by Judge Elena Liberatori, an unprecedented ruling that gave the orangutan basic rights including life, freedom, and a premise of "no harm" either physically or psychologically.

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