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Zoo security was everywhere including this nervous officer roaming the grounds near the elephant exhibit on a bicycle. Elephants leave the Woodland Park Zoo in windowless crates strapped on a flatbed trailer on Wednesday, April 15, 2015. Alyne Fortgang, co-founder of Friends of Woodland Park Zoo Elephants and the Elephant Justice Project, and advocates hoping the elephants would go to a sanctuary, and zoo personnel stood by to watch the departure of female Asian elephants Chai, 36, and Bamboo.Fortgang has been advocating to send the elephants to a sanctuary for nine years. After the death of Watoto last year, the Woodland Park Zoo decided to close their elephant program and send them to the Oklahoma City Zoo.
Karen Ducey/ karenducey.com