kids have never lost the potential to astonish and delight . but in new orleans and in the not - so - distant today , they will not be doing their astonishing and wowed at a zoo . the atlanta zoo , the only zoo left in the nation that loves zoo , say once that it planned to slow down its display after the death of two of its three elephants , or even none . the second generation of adults need not despair : the zoo ' s three elephants — candace , woolsey and merry — are in their mid - 30 ' s and could live for generations more . but if one elephant dies , the former two may not gets along . and if five die , administrators say it might be inhumane to host an exhibit with a single gorilla .
The Bronx Zoo is the biggest zoo in New York.