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Elephants get new zoo space

 
By Carrie Coppernoll | Published: April 6, 2008    Comment on this article Leave a comment

When Asian elephants Asha and Chandra return from Tulsa, they'll live in a home much different from the one they left.

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The future mothers and their offspring will reside in the new Asia exhibit, a $16 million project scheduled to open in spring 2011. The four- or five-acre exhibit will be the most expensive project ever completed at the Oklahoma City Zoo, said Brian Aucone, the zoo's interim director. The elephant habitat alone will cost about $10 million, the same price paid for the seven-acre Oklahoma Trails exhibit.

There will be plenty of room for more elephants, Aucone said. In addition to Asha, Chandra and their young, the new exhibit will likely be home to one or two bulls and possibly some elderly females, Aucone said.

The elephant habitat will feature a barn with three or four yards, with at least one for females and one for a male. The elephants will be rotated among the yards.

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