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Saturday, November 20, 2010

elephants, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Buckles: Taken in 2004 or 2005 at the Bronx Zoo.
Best to you....and Wade, Paul

Wade G. Burck said...: Paul,
The Bronx has kept 31 elephants in it's history, with 21 deaths, and 7 relocation's. There has been one birth that died, and almost no effort to bred since 1983. A knock against sanctuaries is that they don't bred the elephant's, isn't that correct? The Bronx is one of the greatest zoo's in the world, bar none, but elephant's have historically never been high on their list of priorities. I am not suggesting that the Bronx elephants are not "happy" in the picture you enclosed. Do you think it is possible that they could be "happier?"
Regards to you and Diane,
Wade Burck; 20 November, 2010 21:37
Ryan Easley said...: Ironically, one of the three elephants at the Bronx Zoo is named Happy, one of the original "Seven Dwarfs" imported in 1972 to the Lion Country Safari in Laguna Hills, shortly after transferred to the Lion Country Safari in West Palm Beach and eventually sold to facilites across the country.

I have heard that Smokey trained these elephants originally in California. Does anyone have more information regarding this?

The Bronx Zoo announced that when two of their last three elephants die, they will relocate the remaining survior and permanently close their elephant exhibit.; 21 November, 2010 17:23

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