A spacious, sunny indoor Elephant Community Center is the final piece of the zoo’s $56 million project to build a state-of-the-art “Elephant Trails” exhibit and increase the size of its herd.
Elephant keeper Debbie Flinkman feeds grain-and-apple fiber biscuits to female Asian elephants Shanthi, 38, left, and Ambika, 65, center, in their new enclosure at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington. The zoo had been renovating the old Elephant House, and its new “Elephant Trails” complex, which includes an Elephant Community Center, is a much more open space where the zoo's Asian elephants can roam indoors and outdoors throughout the day.
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