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Elephants are seen at the safari park in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Animal welfare group says bacterial infection killed Sonia the elephant in Pakistan

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

In this photo supplied by Four Paws, Charley, an ageing four-ton African elephant, enters his adaption enclosure to acclimatise, at the Shambala Private Game Reserve, South Africa, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024, after being transported from Pretoria's National Zoological Gardens. (Four Paws via AP)

How do you get a grumpy 4-ton elephant to a new home 120 miles away? Call the elephant movers

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

A sick brown bear sits at his enclosure in the Marghazar Zoo, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. A pair of sick and neglected dancing Himalayan brown bears will leave Islamabad's notorious zoo Wednesday for a sanctuary in Jordan, closing down a zoo that once housed 960 animals. The Marghazar Zoo's horrific conditions gained international notoriety when Kaavan, dubbed the world's loneliest elephant, grabbed headlines and the attention of iconic American entertainer Cher. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Sickly dancing bears leaving Pakistan for new life in Jordan

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Dr. Amir Khalil, a veterinarian from the international animal welfare organization Four Paws, feeds an elephant named Kaavan who is loaded in a crate for transporting him to a sanctuary in Cambodia, at the Marghazar Zoo in Islamabad, Pakistan, Sunday, Nov. 29, 2020. Kavaan, the world's loneliest elephant, who became a cause celebre in part because America's iconic singer and actress Cher joined the battle to save him from his desperate conditions at the zoo. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

‘World’s loneliest elephant’ Kaavan starts trip to Cambodia

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

In this Sept. 4, 2020, file photo, Dr. Amir Khalil, a veterinary from the international animal welfare organization &quot;Four Paws&quot; comforts an elephant named &quot;Kaavan&quot; during his examination at the Maragzar Zoo in Islamabad, Pakistan. Iconic singer and actress Cher was set to visit Pakistan on Friday, Nov. 27, 2020, to celebrate the departure of Kaavan, dubbed the “world’s loneliest elephant,” who will leave his Pakistani zoo for better conditions after years of lobbying by animal rights groups and activists. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed, File)

Cher in Pakistan for resettlement of ‘loneliest elephant’

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Jan. 21 photo, a malnourished lion rests in a zoo in Khartoum, Sudan. With the staff at the destitute Al-Qurashi Park, as the zoo in Khartoum is known, unable to feed and look after the animals, many have died off or were evacuated, leaving only three skeletal lions. (AP Photo)

Rescue mission aids starving lions in neglected Sudan zoo

By ASHRAF IDRIS - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, July 26, 2017 photo, a tiger rescued from an amusement park near the embattled city of Aleppo, Syria, sits on its cage to receive medical treatment from health care members of the Four Paws organisation, in Bursa, northwestern Turkey. Austria-based Four Paws evacuated nine animals total, two bears, three lions, two hyenas and two tigers which all survived intense clashes on Syria's civil war around the Aleppo region. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

AP Photos: Vets help zoo animals rescued from Syria

By EMRAH GUREL - Associated Press