
By now, you probably know the sad story about Chai the elephant. She and another elephant, Bamboo, were moved from Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo to the Oklahoma City Zoo in May 2015. The move was challenged in court by PETA, Bob Barker and other animal rights activists from across the country who claimed the trip could endanger the elephants' health and well-being. The courts didn't intervene, Chai and Bamboo made the long journey to Oklahoma City, and less than a year later, zookeepers found Chai dead in her pen despite the fact that she "seemed to be healthy."
At least that's what the zoo claimed when they issued this press release: