Marilyn Kroplick, the group’s president. Kroplick dedicated 2024’s ranking to Tonka, a 46-year-old African elephant at Zoo Knoxville that was euthanized for chronic pain last May.
A beloved African elephant who spent decades at the Oakland Zoo has died. The Oakland Zoo announced Friday that Donna the African elephant died suddenly at the elephant sanctuary in Tennessee.
The group ranked the zoo as the sixth-worst in the country for keeping its five elderly African elephants — known as the "Golden Girls" by the zoo — in a small space and forcing them to ...
In 2019, concerns were raised that the elephant was showing signs of distress common with animals in captivity. The South African National Biodiversity Institute, which runs the zoo, denied it ...