Omaha zoo's last elephant finds some old friends in Cleveland (story & video)
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Published on Jun 6, 2013
Shenga, an African Elephant at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, enjoys the water on Thursday, June 6, 2013 in African Elephant Crossing.
Shenga came to Cleveland from Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo in Nebraska. Her Omaha keepers described her as smart and social.
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PHOTO BY CLEVELAND METROPARKS ZOO
Shenga, right, nuzzles up against Willy, with whom she was reunited at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo in 2011. The two, along with two other female elephants, lived together in a private estate in Florida during the early 1980s before being separated.
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By Chris Peters / World-Herald staff writer
Shenga the elephant is thriving in a new home among old friends.
The 32-year-old African bush elephant left the Omaha zoo in 2011 for the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo in Ohio. There, she was reunited with three others from her youth in the early 1980s.
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Shenga, then the lone elephant at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo, carries a tire on Nov. 21, 2010.
Kallie, 32, Martika, 33, and Willy, 36, originally lived with Shenga in Florida at a large estate named Jumbolair, which housed around 100 elephants in 10 years of operation. Each of the four elephants shares roots in Zimbabwe and may have even been from the same herd.
Shenga relocated to Cleveland after losing her lone companion at the Henry Doorly Zoo, 47-year-old Maliaka, in 2010.
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