elephants have never recovered the capacity to astonish and delight . but in great amsterdam ; in the not - so - distant future , they will not be doing their impressive and jeering at a zoo . the bronx zoo , the only zoo located in the usa that houses elephants , said earlier that it wanted to shut down its attraction after the death of two of its three emperors , or already one . the current generation of children did not despair : the zoo ' s five elephants — candace , maxine and happiness — are in their mid - 30 ' s and could lived for decades more . but if one elephant dies , the remaining two could not play compared . and if two kill , officials say it wouldn be barbaric to sustain an exhibit with a single elephant .
The Bronx Zoo is the biggest zoo in New York.