Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
This spring, Alice, a 52-year-old Asian elephant, finally succeeded in breaching the steel-welded barrier at ABQ BioPark Zoo to indulge her desire for vegetation not available to her inside her tiny, barren yard. Her time outside was her first and only taste of freedom since she was captured in Asia at 2 years old and shipped to the U.S. to spend 50 years as a slave for entertainment. For 16 years, she was brutally trained to perform tricks in a circus. In 2001, she ended up at the zoo in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where her innate desire to forage has never left her.
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This spring, Alice, a 52-year-old Asian elephant, finally succeeded in breaching the steel-welded barrier at ABQ BioPark Zoo to indulge her desire for vegetation not available to her inside her tiny, barren yard. Her time outside was her first and only taste of freedom since she was captured in Asia at 2 years old and shipped to the U.S. to spend 50 years as a slave for entertainment. For 16 years, she was brutally trained to perform tricks in a circus. In 2001, she ended up at the zoo in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where her innate desire to forage has never left her.
Read more: bit.ly/4entKlI
