Shanthi, world’s most studied elephant, dies at Washington’s National Zoo

Mongabay
Jul 9, 2020, 10:09 am205 pts
In 1976, a young Asian elephant named Shanthi was flown from Sri Lanka to the U.S. An orphaned calf, she was a gift from the children of the former to those of the latter. At an April 2, 1977, ceremony at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., she was symbolically handed over by Punitha Gunaratne, 8, the…

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