Thika the Elephant

by Nina Silver

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Thika the Elephant

Artist

Nina Silver

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Photograph - Digital Photograph

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Elephants from the Toronto Zoo were moved in 2012 to a new home in California.

Excerpt from the 'Toronto Star': "The departure of the three ladies, as their keepers fondly call them, marks the end of the Toronto Zoo’s 40-year elephant program. Iringa and Toka, youngsters spared from a deadly cull in Mozambique, were among the first pachyderms to arrive at the zoo in 1974, the year it opened. Thika was born in Toronto; the one-hectare zoo paddock is all she has ever known.
The elephants formerly of Toronto will now live on rolling grassland with trees, meadows, lakes, a walnut orchard, three heated barns and a Jacuzzi.
Word of their arrival in California was sweet news for some; for others, bitter."

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December 29th, 2014

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