"Excellent sense of smell, so they know what's what," Milwaukee County Zoo director Chuck Wikenhauser said. It's one of the new enrichment activities for her and Brittany — both African elephants — as part of the zoo's elephant exhibit that opened this spring. The upgrade, which
1 / 20Zoo ElephantsIn this Friday April 26, 2019 photo, Ed Stewart, president and co-founder of the Performing Animals Welfare Society gives an orange to Lulu, one of the African elephants at the PAWS ARK 2000 Sanctuary near San Andreas, Calif. The more than 2,000 acre sanctuary was built more than a decade ago to provide a more natural environment to animals that have spent years displayed at zoo's or forced to perform at circuses. MILWAUKEE — Ruth loves popcorn.
The upgrade, which cost $16.6 million, was created in part because of an effort to improve standards for elephants in zoos. The treatment of elephants has been at the center of a debate in recent years, including the use of elephants as circus animals. The elephants are a favorite, so the zoo in Milwaukee and its supporters thought investing in the exhibit was worth it. The Zoological Society of Milwaukee raised half the cost within the community.
Part of the reason is that AZA, which sets zoo care standards, instituted specific requirements for elephants in 2011, according to AZA spokesman Rob Vernon. Some zoos were unable to afford the requirements, which included putting barriers between keepers and elephants. Vernon said there were general guidelines for dealing with all animals before 2011, but the decision to make a special set of requirements for elephants was due to zoo officials, researchers and scientists believing"that the methods of caring for them should advance along with the science."
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