An opinion piece that discusses behavioral issues in captive animals. The article mentions Jenny, who lives in the Dallas Zoo. The article also mentions Maggie, who was the elephant that a treadmill was built for when she lived in Alaska. Maggie has since gone to live at PAWS, the Performing Animal Welfare Society.

Jenny at The Dallas Zoo

Taiwan News Online

“A year into her new life roaming a California sanctuary with other elephants, Alaska’s favorite expat shows every sign of enjoying it. She trumpets, knocks down trees and calls for her companions when they wander too far, say her new keepers.” – adn.com

“A year into her new life roaming a California sanctuary with other elephants, Alaska’s favorite expat shows every sign of enjoying it. She trumpets, knocks down trees and calls for her companions when they wander too far, say her new keepers.” – ScrippsNews

“Alaskans keep asking for updates on Maggie the elephant — folks just can’t seem to get enough.” – KTUU.com

“The Performing Animal Welfare Society sanctuary in northern California says muddy weather is preventing a new African elephant from being brought into the pen.” – UPI.com

“Maggie captured the attention and hearts of people throughout the state and the Lower 48 this year when she became ill and collapsed. The event increased the pressure on the Alaska Zoo to find Maggie a new home in a warmer climate.” – KTUU.com

“This weekend, the nationally syndicated Animal Radio? airs coverage of the very controversial African elephant move from the Anchorage Alaska Zoo to her new home at PAWS (Performing Animal Welfare Society) near Sacramento, California.” – Best Syndication

“You can see a lot of wildlife in Alaska ? bears, whales, eagles, and more ? but you won’t find any elephants there.” – Deseret Morning News

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“A 25-year-old African elephant named Maggie is safe and apparently very happy to be in her new California home after traveling all the way from Alaska.” – UPI.com

“Maggie, long the only elephant in Alaska, arrived in San Andreas on Friday to take up residence in a much warmer retirement home – the Performing Animal Welfare Society’s ARK 2000 elephant refuge.” – Recordnet.com

“Alaska’s only elephant, Maggie, arrived at her sunny new home in California Friday and was showing no ill effects from her 16 hour journey by truck and military transport plane, officials said. “She seems to love it here,” Kim Gardner, an official at the Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS), told Deutsche Presse- Agentur, dpa. “She really likes that sunshine.” – US World

“Though she originally moved to Alaska to provide companionship for another elephant, over the years Maggie blossomed into a star attraction and icon of the Alaska Zoo.” – KTUU.com

“The only elephant in the state of Alaska is flying to Fairfield.” – KQCA Sacramento

“Alaska’s only elephant is coming in from the cold. Maggie, a 25-year-old African elephant, will be flown today from The Alaska Zoo to the Performing Animal Welfare Society in balmy California.” – USATODAY.com

“Maggie the Alaskan African elephant is on her way to a new home in California following a visit by The Price is Right?s recently retired host Bob Barker. Yes, really.” – Environmental Graffiti

“For a bunch of loadmasters, life will truly imitate art the day after Halloween, now that the Air Force has agreed to fly Maggie, a sick elephant, aboard a C-17 Globemaster from Alaska to California.” – Air Force Times

“Maggie the Elephant is one step closer to leaving Alaska. Her special crate has arrived, and we got a look at her training inside it. We’re still waiting on word from the Air Force on whether it’ll fly Maggie down south on a C-17. We expect to hear about that real soon. In the meantime, the 8,000 pound-pachyderm is getting ready for her trip.” – Alaska Superstation