I agree with Barker on this.
I was going to say that this article sounds like a lot of elephant shit, but he's probably right. The poor things need a LOT of land and they are so intelligent.
Actually, we should just close all zoos. No zoo is the same experience for an animal as living in the wild. It is not good enough for nutty animal rights activists that they build a spacious enclosure. They want no animals in zoos period.
Elephants are beasts of burden in much of the world. And the ones in zoos live a lot longer. This is silly. They are also getting rid of elephants at the Bronx zoo.
Maybe this is part of the backlash agaisnt Republicans?