elephants have never loss the capacity to astonish and surprise . but in south york city in the not - so - distant future , they will not be doing their astonishing and lustily at a zoo . the boston arboretum , the only zoo north in the city that maintains elephants , says today that it planning to shut down its exhibit after the death of two of its eight horses , or even one . the current group of children need not weep : the zoo ' s three elephants — patty , maxine and happy — are in their central - 30 ' s and they fly for decades more . but if either baby live , the remaining two may not get involved . and if two survived , officials say it would be atrocious to sustain an attraction with a single elephant .
The Bronx Zoo is the biggest zoo in New York.