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Proponents of elephants in zoos argue that wild elephants walk long distances because of the necessity of finding water, food, or mates, but that captive elephants do not require the same amount of walking if resources are more readily available. [7] In the wild, elephant herds (particularly those of African elephants) can be quite large. [4]
CEC logo. The Center for Elephant Conservation (CEC) is a 200-acre (0.81 km 2) breeding farm and retirement facility for elephants in Polk City, Florida, opened inThe CEC is solely sponsored by Feld Entertainment, the holding company which operated the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus [1] from the 1960s until 2017.
Fewer than a third of the elephants in captivity are still young enough to reproduce, and the first live births of captive elephants didn’t even happen in America until the 1960s. Currently, it ...
White Oak Conservation, which is part of Walter Conservation, is a 17,000-acre (6,900 ha) conservation center in northeastern Florida.It is dedicated to the conservation of endangered and threatened species, including Indian rhinoceros, southern white rhinoceros, south-central black rhinoceros (also known as southern black rhinoceros), Asian elephants, giraffes, okapi, bongo antelope, zebras ...
Former circus elephants are starting to arrive at a new wildlife sanctuary in north Florida. The White Oak Conservation Center announced Monday that a dozen female Asian elephants have already ...
An African Elephant named Madhubala was finally reunited with her sisters after 15 years. Madhubala experienced poor conditions in captivity at Karachi Zoo in Pakistan. After the death of her ...
The National Elephant Center was open from 2013 - 2016 and is now closed. It was created to provide care to African and Asian elephants on a 225-acre (91 ha) site in Fellsmere, Florida. In addition to providing care to animals, its goal was also contribute research, support and population management to accredited zoos with elephants.
The 1941 movie Dumbo might have made it seem as if elephants in captivity were having babies, but the first successful captive elephant birth didn’t occur for over twenty years after that film ...