do any zoos have elephants?
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Altogether, 78 North American zoos hold 286 elephants, says Michael Keele, deputy director of the Oregon Zoo in Portland and head of the elephant group of the American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA). Of those 286 elephants, 147 are African and 139 Asian.
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Luckily, there is a clear-cut, ethical alternative to zoos and aquariums: visiting an animal sanctuary. ... As explained by PETA, animals are routinely taken from the wild to be put on display in zoos; zoos also breed animals, claiming good intentions but simply using the bred animals for display.
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The elephants are bound for the Dallas Zoo, the Sedgwick County Zoo, in Wichita, Kansas, and the Henry Doorly Zoo, in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Elephants are social animals who tend to live in large groups. They are known for their ability to stay within “family” groups for the duration of their lives, and never stray far from their own mothers.
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Addo Elephant Park, South Africa There is no better place to see elephants ethically in South Africa, if not the world, than Addo Elephant National Park. ... The park is small enough to be seen in one day, in contrast to the enormity of Kruger National Park in the north.
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Asian elephants live in the tropical forests and grasslands of Southeast Asia. They're a little smaller than African elephants but can grow nine feet tall and weigh nearly six tons.
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The largest zoo in the world is in Nebraska. Henry Doorly Zoo in Nebraska houses around 17,000 animals having the largest complex for cats and even the world's largest indoor desert. It was built in 1864.
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Mean daily walking distance in zoo elephants. African elephants walked an average of 5.4 km/day and Asian elephants walked an average of 5.3 km/day; there was no significant difference between the species (P = 0.831) (Table 2).
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Marwell Zoo is the only zoo in the UK to have all three species of zebra; plains zebra, mountain zebra and Grevy's zebra. Grevy's are easily identifiable by their large round ears and thin, narrow stripes, although the foal currently has fluffy ears and brown stripes that will eventually turn black.
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Elephants live in the Savanna biome between Swagger Rock and Boundary Spillway. They are usually found in herds of 2 or 3.
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They look like the should be. Actually, neither. While elephants, pigs and cows are all mammals, elephants belong to their own lonely order, Proboscidea, which includes elephants, mammoths, and several other species that are now extinct.
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Zoos Are Too Small for Some Species, Biologists Report. Polar bears, lions, tigers, cheetahs and other wide-ranging carnivores do so poorly in captivity that zoos should either drastically improve their conditions or stop keeping them altogether, biologists from Oxford University report today in the journal Nature.
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African elephants are the largest land animals on Earth. They are slightly larger than their Asian cousins and can be identified by their larger ears that look somewhat like the continent of Africa. (Asian elephants have smaller, rounded ears.)
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Asian elephants live in the tropical forests and grasslands of Southeast Asia.
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