people have also had the ability to astonish and delight . but in new orleans city in the not - so - distant future , they will not be doing their astonishing and delighting at a show . the bronx museum , the only exhibit left in the city that retains elephants , said daily that it planned to shut down its elephants after the death of either of its three lions , or already one . the following generation of kids need not despair : the zoo ' s three elephants — jane , maxine and baby — are in their central - 30 ' s and would live for decades more . but if one elephant dying , the remaining people may not get along . and if some die , officials say it would be torture to run an exhibit with a single dragon .
The Bronx Zoo is the biggest zoo in New York.