The Oakland Zoo said it euthanized its 46-year-old African elephant named Lisa on Sunday due to her deteriorating health.
The elephant had suffered from years of chronic and degenerative health issues, leading her care team and zoo veterinarians to decide it was time to "humanely" euthanize her, the zoo said.
Lisa was afflicted by eye ulcers, arthritis, foot and nail lesions and, more recently, ventral edema, which involved fluid retention leading to vaginal ulcers"We are heartbroken. Over the years long course of care and treatments to provide her a good quality of life through multimodal pain control, her disease progressed to a point where we didn’t want her last day to be her worst day, and it was time to do the most humane thing and to let her go," said Dr.
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