(US-pa) Elephant Leaving Philadelphia Zoo After 41 Years

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(US-pa) Elephant Leaving Philadelphia Zoo After 41 Years

 

(CBS) PHILADELPHIA After 41 years at the Philadelphia Aoo, Dulary the

elephant will be leaving Monday.

 

Friends came to sign a going away card for Dulary, who is headed for

retirement, because the zoo is closing its elephant exhibit, reacting

in part to pressure from animal rights groups who believe they suffer

in cramped enclosures.

 

" The minute as an organization you stop listening to your audience,

your guest, or any one of the groups that that are out there, I think

you run the risk of becoming irrelevant, " said Vikram Dewan, present

and CEO of Philadelphia Zoo.

 

Philadelphia is not alone. Zoos in San Francisco, Detroit, Chicago

and

the Bronx Zoo have all decided to phase out their elephants.

 

Over the years, most elephants in the U.S. have been confined to

houses and pens, that today seem woefully inadequate for animals

that,

in nature, live in highly organized herds and migrate over great

distances.

 

In the Tennessee sanctuary where Dulary is headed, she'll have more

than 20 companions and 2,700 acres to roam.

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