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A pair of Asian elephants at the center of a long debate over their welfare at the Los Angeles Zoo have arrived at a zoo in Oklahoma with a preserve after weeks of wrangling over the relocation ...
The move came "under cover of darkness," said Jake Davis, an attorney for the Nonhuman Rights Project, which is suing the LA Zoo. Davis said he received reports that the Asian elephants were ...
The Los Angeles Zoo confirms what happened to its Asian elephants, Billy and Tina, who were suddenly absent from their habitat on May 20 Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has ...
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Billy and Tina, who were the last two remaining Asian elephants at the Los Angeles Zoo, have officially been transferred after some controversy. Last month, the zoo announced ...
Billy and Tina, a pair of Asian elephants long housed at the Los Angeles Zoo, were settling into their new home Wednesday at the Tulsa Zoo, following a day of mystery that began when the animals ...
In response to a series of high-profile security breaches at the Dallas Zoo, Texas legislators are considering bills that would stiffen penalties for trespassing in animal enclosures, elevating ...
The Dallas Zoo is the oldest and largest zoological park in Texas — and it’s not even close. At 106 acres, it’s about double the size of the zoos in Fort Worth, San Antonio and Houston and ...
The zoo has had elephants since 1954. In Defense of Animals has also recently targeted zoos in Little Rock, Phoenix and Dallas for their treatment of elephants. One of the group’s missions is to ...
A plan that would bring two new elephants to the Tulsa Zoo from their current home in Los Angeles is drawing protests and at least one lawsuit from animal rights activists. Los Angeles Zoo ...
The decades-long controversy over the Los Angeles Zoo’s elephants is intensifying, even after officials announced that Billy and Tina will be moved to a zoo in Oklahoma where they will have more ...
PHOENIX – The Phoenix Zoo euthanized its last elephant on Thursday. Indu, who spent most of her life in captivity, was 59. “Her gentle spirit, intelligence and resilience inspired not only our ...