Elderly Asian Elephant Ambika Dies at Smithsonian’s National Zoo | Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute https://nationalzoo.si.edu/news/elderly-asian-elephant-ambika-dies-smithsonians-national-zoo
The Smithsonian’s National Zoo community is mourning the loss of Ambika, the beloved eldest member of its Asian elephant herd. She was humanely euthanized yesterday, March 27, following a recent and irreversible decline in her health.
elephant until 1961, when she was given to the Zoo as a gift