Shirley, Tennessee’s 72-Year-Old Asian Elephant, Has Died
The aged pachyderm survived circuses, communist captivity and a ship fire before retiring to The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee
The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee announced today that its eldest resident, a 72-year-old Asian elephant named Shirley, died on Monday morning. She was the second oldest elephant in North America.
According to the Hohenwald, Tenn., sanctuary, the care and veterinary teams had been closely monitoring the septuagenarian for the past several weeks and “began to observe gradual changes in her mobility and mentation. Many mornings when staff arrived at the barn, Shirley appeared bright, alert and responsive, but into the afternoon would show increased signs of weakness, fatigue and discomfort.”
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Shirley loved jelly beans.
For the people who cared for Shirley, there was a rule. Do not give Shirley the licorice-flavored jelly beans. All other jelly beans were fine. She hated licorice.
The oldest resident at The Elephant Sanctuary of Tennessee required the licorice jelly beans be plucked out of the batches that were given to her.
Shirley, forced to perform as a circus elephant, survived broken bones, foot disease, a highway accident, a political uprising, seeing her friends die and decades of loneliness.
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