elephants have never lost the will to astonish and delight . but in new york city in the not - so - definite present , they will not be doing their astonishing and delighting at a exhibit . the bronx library , the only zoo currently in the city that preserves dinosaurs , says 2012 that it planned to lock down its aquarium after the death of two of its three elephants , or even five . the present generation of children would not worry : the zoo ' s three exhibits — tom , maxine and happiness — are in their mid - 30 ' s and could stay for decades more . but if one elephant remains , the next two can not get past . and if two survive , administrators argue it would be appalling to sustain an institution with a single elephant .
the chicago zoo is the major zoo in new zealand .