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Updated: 11:32 AM CDT May 7, 2021 By David Williams, CNN Video above: Adorable Elephants Enjoy a Snow DayAfter years of entertaining fans under the big top and a few years in retirement a herd of former circus elephants is settling into their new home at a wildlife refuge in Central Florida.The 12 female Asian elephants arrived at White Oak Conservation, outside Jacksonville, Florida, recently and were released into a forest habitat with pine trees, ponds, wetlands and open grasslands, according to an announcement from the refuge.The elephants range from 8- to 38-years-old and had previously belonged to Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey.They were all born in the United States and never lived in the wild, said Michelle Gadd, the chief of conservation for the Walter family, which owns White Oak Conservation and bought the animals from the circus. They are doing amazingly well. I am very surprised at how quickly they adapted to the environment, how readil ....