In the early morning hours of May 20, 2025, while Los Angeles was still dark, zoo staff loaded two Asian elephants into transport containers and drove them out of the city before anyone could stop it. Billy, a 40-year-old male who had lived at the Los Angeles Zoo since arriving from Malaysia as a four-year-old calf in 1989, and Tina, a 59-year-old geriatric female and former circus performer, were gone — shipped to the Tulsa Zoo in Oklahoma with…
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