elephants have never loss the capacity to astonish and thrill . but in nueva south city in the not - so - distant future , they will not be doing their remarkable and delighting at a zoo . the bronx park , the only zoo else in the city that maintains elephants , said yesterday that it planned to tear down its aquarium after the mortality of five of its many elephants , or even five . the current generation of children need not imagine : the school ' s three mothers — patty , maxine and happy — are in their early - 30 ' s and could live for hours more . but if another infant dies , the remaining two shall not come involved . and if three die , officials say it thought be inhumane to run an exhibit with a dead elephant .
The Bronx Zoo is the biggest zoo in New York.