You can also see the outline of an African Elephant in Garden Lights. During the Winter Zoo Lights...Maggie returns in a fashion to the Alaska Zoo and her old home.
I saw the African elephant at this zoo shortly before she left. Other than not having other elephants it seemed like a pretty nice exhibit (and of course the fact that she couldn't be outside for a lot of the year).
This exhibit will probably make a very nice moose exhibit.
The zoo owes it's existence to an Elephant. All the good it does in the realm of education and conservation has at it's root an Elephant....and that Elephants time at the zoo.
It was not the worst Elephant Exhibit I've ever seen. Naha Zoo circa 1976 or Deagu Zoo circa 2004 win those honors, and the zoo went to enormous lengths to try to make their last Elephants stay here more comfortable, but in the end they recognized that the appreciation they had for their Elephants and the heritage they represented simply was not sufficient to ensure the Elephants comfort and health.
I never got to see Annabelle, the Asian Elephant, but saw Maggie, the African Elephant, many times. I'm glad she is now in California with others of her kind.
For 38 of the last 7,000 years, Alaska had Elephants again...and they are fondly remembered.
@Pleistohorse Could you please post a picture of Naha zoos elephant exhibit? I've seen Deagu zoos, and it made me want to upchuck my lunch. I don't see how anything can be worse then that.
pachyderm pro, I was very young at the time...if memory serves....imagine a box of Nabisco Barnum's Animals come to life. A single Asian Elephant in an iron barred cage insufficient to allow the animal to turn around. I was five and the enclosure horrified me. Of course I may only be remembering one aspect of it.
