Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe PHILADELPHIA, March 5 (UPI) -- The Philadelphia Zoo has started a send-off celebration for its four elephants Petal, Dulary, Bette and Kallie. The four elephants will be sent to new homes when the zoo closes its elephant exhibit this spring, The Philadelphia Enquirer reported Monday. The decision to move the elephants was made last fall. Advertisement Dulary, 42, was captured in Thailand as a baby and has lived in Philadelphia ever since. He will move to the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee. Petal, 50, who has also lived in Philadelphia for most of her life, is expected to move to the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore, along with Kallie, 24, and Bette, 23. Once all of the elephants are gone by late June, the Philadelphia Zoo will be without the species for the first time in its 133-year history. "We understand, particularly with Dulary and Petal, we have a responsibility to help our members and families say goodbye," zoo spokeswoman Gretchen Toner said. "We don't want it to be a surprise when people come to the zoo and the elephants are gone."
