Runaway elephant returned to upstate New York sanctuary
November 14, 2018
WESTTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — An elephant that was burned by napalm during the Vietnam War has been returned to an upstate New York animal sanctuary after taking a late-night stroll.
State police say they went to the Sanctuary for Animals in Westtown on Sunday night when they got a call about a wandering elephant.
Amanda Brook, whose family owns the sanctuary, tells the Times Herald-Record that the 46-year-old Asian elephant named Fritha has lived at the sanctuary most of her life. She wandered off after a worker forgot to turn on an electric fence that keeps her in her designated space at night.
Her...
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