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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Ruby, the Los Angeles Zoo's oldest elephant, left for an animal sanctuary Tuesday to live out her retirement following years of lobbying by animal-rights activists.
The 46-year-old African elephant, who spent 20 years at the zoo, was loaded before dawn into the back of an air-conditioned truck bound for the Performing Animal Welfare Society Elephant Sanctuary in San Andreas, southeast of Sacramento.
She had been off-exhibit at the zoo and living alone since the death of a companion, Gita, a 48-year-old female Asian elephant, last June.
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