March 01, 2017 at 01:55PM
Lucy the elephant has lived at the Edmonton Valley Zoo for 40 years and recently became a flashpoint in the debate over whether elephants belong in captivity
Lucy hesitated in the doorway as she debated whether to leave the warmth of home and venture out into the sub-zero cold.
Then she plodded forward, scooping up freshly fallen snow with her trunk and shoving it in her mouth. Every minute or so, a deep rumbling punctuated the air – a symptom of a decades-old respiratory problem that forces her to breathe through her mouth. Zookeepers hovered around her, monitoring her body temperature with an infrared scanner to ensure she wasn’t getting cold.
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