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The existing herd of Asian elephants was relocated to a new 2,200 acres (9 km 2) habitat to accommodate eight incoming elephants who needed to be quarantined in 2005. This new area includes a 22,000 sq ft (2,000 m 2 ) barn and 20,000 sq ft (2,000 m 2 ) hay barn which is able to hold up to 35,000 bales of hay.
They actively work to protect elephants in the Sanctuary and their natural habitats and educate the public about ongoing threats like poaching, habitat loss, and human-wildlife conflict.
Elephants live in herds which typically consist of 10 to 70 individuals. These herds are matriarchal and are usually led by the oldest female. ... The other threat that elephants face is habitat ...
In 1923, a Birthday Fund initiative was started by a local newspaper to start a park for underprivileged children. After slow progress, the Birthday Park was established in 1935 with help from the city of Knoxville and the New Deal. The park included a stone shelter, small playground, and a wading pool on a hillside in Chilhowee Park ...
Carol Buckley (born May 18, 1954) is an American elephant caregiver, specializing in the trauma recovery and on-going physical care of captive elephants. [1]In 1995, Buckley realized a decades long dream and retired her elephant, Tarra, to their private farm in Hohenwald, Tennessee, which later became The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee.
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The Nashville Zoo at Grassmere is a zoological garden and historic plantation farmhouse located 6 miles (9.7 km) southeast of Downtown Nashville.As of 2014, the zoo was middle Tennessee's top paid attraction and contained 3,736 individual animals, encompassing 352 species. [7]