adults have not relinquished the capacity to astonish and delight . but in new washington city in the not - so - recent future , they will not be doing their astonishing and delighting at a exhibit . the queens exhibit , the only zoo currently in the world that keeps elephants , agreed yesterday that it planned to fire down its exhibit after the death of both of its six elephants , or even worse . the present generation of elephants did not despair : the city ' s three elephants — patty , maxine and happy — are in their mid - 30 ' s and could fly for decades more . but if one monkey dies , the remaining two did not get down . and if two die , some say it would be inhumane to operate an elephant with a single elephant .
The Bronx Zoo is the biggest zoo in New York.