Free Photo: African Elephant at the Philadelphia Zoo in Pennsylvania

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With the need to renovate it's current elephant exhibit and due to budget constraints, the zoo determined that "short-term renovations to their current site would not serve the long-term interests of our elephants or our visitors". Thus the elephants have been placed at the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee and the Pittsburgh Zoo's Conservation Center and the Zoo's elephant exhibit closed in 2009.

African elephants are the largest living land animal. Males may measure as tall as 13 feet at the shoulder, with females measuring up to 11 feet cm at the shoulder. In both cases, these are close to maximum measurements and most individuals are shorter. For wild savannah elephants, males are reported to weigh between about 8800 and 13,900 pounds. Females are smaller, and are reported to weight from 4900 to 7700 pounds. Well-fed zoo elephants may be somewhat heavier on average. (source: http://:www.philadelphiazoo.org/zoo/Meet-Our-Animals/Mammals/Hoofed/African-Elephant.htm)

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