L.A. Zoo Elephants
Billy & Tina Secretly Eliminated …
Snuck ‘Em Out at 1:30 AM!!!
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Cher is gonna be pissed! The beloved L.A. Zoo elephants she went to bat for — Billy and Tina — had been secreted outta the zoo beneath cowl of darkness final evening … TMZ has discovered.
Sources related to the L.A. Zoo inform us Billy and Tina had been eliminated round 1:30 AM Tuesday and, presumably, loaded as much as be shipped to Tulsa Zoo — a controversial transfer that prompted protests, a lawsuit and an offended letter to L.A. Mayor Karen Bass … which Cher and a number of other different celebs signed.
We’re advised the elephant exhibit at L.A. Zoo was empty Tuesday morning — no elephants, no keepers and the electrical perimeter fence was off … clear indications the animals had been on their option to Oklahoma.
Our sources say the elephants had been put into crates and loaded onto a semi-truck for the switch to Tulsa Zoo. It is unclear whether or not how lengthy the journey will take.
We reached out to a number of L.A. Zoo officers, however nobody’s known as again, and L.A.’s Deputy Mayor — who oversees the zoo — hung up on us.
Advocates for Billy and Tina have been everywhere in the L.A. Zoo for years, as a result of Billy and Tina, Asian elephants, have been saved in an enclosure far too small for them.
Zoo officers say they’re going to have extra room to roam in Tulsa, however because the letter to Mayor Bass mentioned, “it is nearly impossible to humanely keep elephants in traditional zoos.”
Alicia Silverston, Diane Warren, Justin Theroux, Katherine Heigl and Nicola Peltz Beckham additionally signed the letter urging Mayor Bass to assist Billy and Tina. Final week, a decide refused to challenge a brief restraining order to dam the switch.
