The Elephant In the Room
Some things haven’t changed at the Philadelphia Zoo, America’s oldest, founded in 1874. It is still open every day and, for the time being, it still has elephants. But in Philadelphia, as in zoos around the country, the question of whether elephants should be kept at all zoos — or maybe even any zoo — has almost abruptly become a sensitive one.
Read the full article in the Washington Post
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