The Dallas Zoo will move its lone elephant to a wildlife park in Mexico this fall, zoo officials announced Tuesday.
enny, the 31-year-old, 11,000-pound African elephant, will move to the Africam Safari Park, a 617-acre forested wildlife park 80 miles southeast of Mexico City, zoo officials said. She will share a 4.9-acre elephant exhibit with one male and two female elephants.
"We are confident that Africam Safari Park and its exemplary elephant program will be a great move for Jenny," Gregg Hudson, the zoo's executive director, said in a prepared statement.
There has been much speculation about Jenny's future since her companion, KeKe, 39, died in May of congestive heart failure. Elephants are herding animals that seek companionship.
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