![]() ![]() It retired Winkie, a 34-year-old Asian elephant, to The Elephant Sanctuary, and transferred Penny, a 21-year-old African elephant, to Riverbanks Zoo in North Carolina. It retired Tange and Zula, both 30-year-old African elephants, to The Elephant Sanctuary because the elephants “deserve to live out their remaining years in the very best captive environment possible.” It announced its decision to close its elephant exhibit and send Tinkerbelle, a 37-year-old Asian elephant, and Lulu, a 38-year-old African elephant, to a sanctuary. In 2004, citing problems with keeping elephants in captivity, it announced its decision to close its elephant exhibit and send the two female Asian elephants-Winky, age 51, and Wanda, age 46-to a sanctuary. It transferred the remaining elephant, 29-year-old Tanya, to the Cameron Park Zoo in Waco, Texas.Ĭiting its inability to increase the size of its elephant exhibit, sent its only elephant, Ruth, a 28-year-old African, to another facility.Īfter all three of its elephants died within a six-month period, announced that camels will be moved into the empty elephant exhibit. It transferred an African elephant to the Performing Animal Welfare Society in San Andreas, California. It transferred two African elephants to the Pittsburgh Zoo’s elephant-breeding center in June 2009. It transferred African elephants Stumpy and Mama to the Dallas Zoo in March 2010. ![]() The last remaining elephant, Joyce, who was “on loan” from Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, was returned to Vallejo, California. It transferred two African elephants to the Nashville Zoo in Tennessee. It transferred the last elephant to Zoo Miami. ![]() ![]() It transferred the last two elephants to the Little Rock Zoo in Arkansas. It transferred the last elephant to the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. Joy died while being transported to the new location. It transferred elephants Bamboo and Chai to the Oklahoma City Zoo.Īfter African elephant Ladybird died in March, Greenville Zoo sent the remaining elephant, 44-year-old Joy, to another facility. In November 2015, the Virginia Zoo announced that it would be moving African elephants Lisa and Cita to Zoo Miami. In August 2018, the Buffalo Zoo announced that it would be moving Asian elephants Jothi and Surapa to the Audubon Zoo. That's all left for us to do at this point.With the recognition that zoos cannot adequately provide for the complex needs of elephants, several zoos have closed their elephant exhibits, setting a positive precedent worldwide. "Currently we are not feeding any of the batch of shrimp that those animals were fed from on Sunday just in case there was some toxin in them. "We will also take a look at the water sample we took from the tank to see if there were any toxins introduced into the water that normally our testing can't pick up, and we are also going to send off a food sample," Adams said. The next step officials will take is to send tissue samples taken from the stingrays to a veterinary diagnostic laboratory to see if there is something that cannot be seen in a necropsy. "We are befuddled at present," Adams said. They went from healthy on Sunday, apparent healthy on Sunday to deceased by Monday morning."Īdams said zoo officials have checked off what needed to be checked off and all was found functionally normal or in normal limits. "There was food in their stomachs they had eaten the day before. "They were not too thin, not too fat, no internal or external sign of disease," Adams said. The zoo's veterinary staff performed necropsies on the stingrays and found them in good physical condition. "The appearance of the stingrays was very similar to last year, it just looked like they were sleeping," said Colette Adams, deputy director at Gladys Porter Zoo, Tuesday.Īlthough water chemistries were performed, the results did not provide any information that would help determined what caused the stingrays to die. ![]()
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