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On a gray day in mid-June, at the edge of a leafy enclosure in the Bronx Zoo's Wild Asia habitat, an elephant named Happy stood very still, gazing over the fence. There were a few logs scattered around, some grass and shrubs, and a concrete-lined pool.

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In 2006, the Bronx Zoo announced no further elephants would be acquired, a measure taken by other zoos after calls from the public and animal experts stated that elephants do not belong in captivity thus affecting their natural behaviors as social creatures.

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Bronx, NY – Dec. 27, 2017 – Tundra, the Bronx Zoo's 26 -year-old polar bear, was euthanized on Saturday due to medical conditions associated with old age. A necropsy showed Tundra to have chronic kidney disease causing acute kidney failure and progressive arthritis that worsened despite treatment.

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One of the world's most celebrated attractions, the San Diego Zoo houses over 4,000 animals from all over the globe. Explore nine diverse animal zones, featuring lions, monkeys, pandas, elephants, reptiles and marine life.

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An escaped peacock from the Bronx Zoo that spent Wednesday night and Thursday morning camping out in a tree in West Farms has returned back home, officials from the zoo say.

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The Bronx Zoo—which acquired Happy in 1977 and trained her, along with other elephants, to perform tricks, which she did in costume as recently as the 1980s—said in 2006 that it intends to close its elephant exhibit after the pachyderms there now die.

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