After 132 Years, Philadelphia Will Send Off Its Elephants
When the Philadelphia Zoo, the nation’s first, opened in 1874, its curators bought an elephant from a traveling circus and chained it to a tree.
Read the full article in the New York Times
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Chai (RIP 2016) at WPZ. This pacing is an elephant's way of coping with stress, trauma and boredom. Science and compassion obligate us to release the elephants to a sanctuary.
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Friends of Woodland Park Zoo Elephants advocates for the retirement of all captive elephants in zoos and circuses as well as all wild animals imprisoned in cages and tanks. We advocate for these animals to go to accredited sanctuaries so that they may heal physically and psychologically.Learn More
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