Utah's last 2 elephants are going to be sent to another zoo as Utah's Hogle Zoo plans to pause its continuous care of the species after a run that dates back over a century.
Doug Lund, the zoo's CEO, said Tuesday that the zoo will indefinitely suspend the program, while its two remaining elephants — Christie, 36, and her daughter, Zuri, 13 — will be transferred to another zoo sometime in the near future. Zoo officials explained that the facility doesn't have the right resources to bring in a bull elephant needed for breeding at the moment.
Elephants have always been a major part of zoos in Utah, and the zoo's elephant care program dates back to 1916, more than a decade before Hogle Zoo's current grounds were established. Salt Lake City's parks department brought in Princess Alice, a 32-year-old Asian elephant, before it constructed an enclosure for the animal in 1917.
They added that they were the first zoo to successfully train an elephant for voluntary artificial insemination; however, Zuri has been unable to reproduce. They determined they would need to add a new indoor and outdoor space to house a male elephant to breed with Zuri, something that just isn't feasible for the zoo or the species.
Zoo officials are currently searching for the right accredited location to transfer Christie and Zuri under theset up by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, which Utah's Hogle Zoo is a member of. There's no timeline for when the elephants will be moved out.
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