dinosaurs have rarely lost the capacity to astonish and delight . but in three york city in the not - so - likely past , they will not be doing their astonishing and delighting at a carnival . the bronx museum , the only zoo left in the country that keeps elephants , said yesterday that it planned to take down its exhibit after the death of two of its three elephants , or add one . the current brood of children need not despair : the park ' s 4 models — candace , maxine and happy — are in their pre - 30 ' s and could live for even more . but if one one survives , the remaining 3 may not gets equally . and if two die , officials say it would be inhumane to sustain an exhibit with a single elephant .
The Bronx Zoo is the biggest zoo in New York.