DETROIT - Winky and Wanda, two aging, arthritic elephants, will spend their retirement in the foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains, away from the cramped, cold Detroit Zoo.

April 2005: Pachyderms to pack it in at Detroit Zoo: The Detroit Zoo's elderly elephants could be on the road to a California sanctuary as early as Monday. "We'll try, and if it doesn't work, we ...

Winky and Wanda, two aging, arthritic elephants, will spend their retirement in the foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains, away from the cramped, cold Detroit Zoo.

The Detroit Zoo will become the nation's first major animal facility to give away its elephants solely on ethical grounds. Winky and Wanda, the latest in an 81-year-old tradition of pachyderms at ...

But 16 years ago, Kagan, the zoo’s soon-to-retire executive director, decided that the harsh Detroit winters were unnatural for Winky and Wanda, the pair of elderly Asia-born elephants in his care.

Two elephants at the center of an unprecedented dispute, touched off by the Detroit zoo director's conclusion that it is inhumane to house two Asian elephants in a northern zoo.

The aging elephants were moved in 2005 from the Detroit Zoo in Royal Oak to the Performing Animal Welfare Society sanctuary in northern California. They had health problems, including arthritis ...

The beloved elephant Wanda, a former resident of the Detroit Zoo, has died. She was 57. Wanda spent nearly the last 10 years of her life in California, after she and companion Winky moved from the ...

DENVER, Colorado – The Denver Zoo will start building a $50 million exhibit for its elephants next year at a time when five major U.S. zoos are closing their pachyderm houses. Since 2004, zoos in ...