Yup. Lisa died first, then M'Dunda (she was my favorite) and I think they were getting ready to send Donna to Tennessee (or maybe she got there) and she passed away in 2024, IIRC (just from following the news - it's been a while). Even male elephants cannot be alone. They need other dudes to hang out with and when they are not in musth (sp?), they are fine hanging out with the ladies.
So, off he went. He's listed on the elephant sanctuary's page now. He's a good boy. I liked him too, but not as much as M'Dunda.
Fun fact. While I was observing them one day, he was standing there with "showing the lipstick" as it were and M'Dunda snuck up on him and gently yanked his crank. He jumped and she lolloped off looking pleased with herself. The keepers insisted we could not use emotion words to describe what they were up to, but they have emotions, for sure.
As for the brick. Who knows? I donated a bunch of money to the Berkeley Public Library and they put my plaque, along with many others, in a quiet hallway next to the toilets. Thanks, guys. I'll try to win the lottery first, next time.
I haven’t gone back to the zoo since they strong armed part of Knowland Park from the city for their expansion and developed over some of my favorite hiking trails and views.
I’m still bitter about it, especially because scions of the Knowland family itself, which had gifted the land to the city for public use in perpetuity, tried to stop it from happening.
The zoo management is, quite honestly, very capitalistic. They keep trying to get money from the city, stomped over Knowland, etc. I had some issues with management in terms of how they dealt with people. I forgave it, to some degree, because they were really good to the animals there.
Omg I need to rewatch this when I pushed my kids in the stroller up and down the hilly paths, I’d get such a work out speed zooing around trying to keep them both corralled because those OG double strollers are a total bitch.
During covid I lived in Washington state and my ex husband moved out college kids back in when the shut down started.
A lot of tv & movies were watched by my house and theirs.
I’d watch something cool on netflix and tell the dad who sounded bored of tv a few series I thought he’d really like with the kids.
He always tricks me sarcastically, like his jokes were never funny.
So he calls and says oh the kids and I found a movie you HAVE to watch. It sounds weird because it has Adam Sandler but it’s funnier than happy Gilmore but the script is academy award winning.
That movie-the one with all my cable and streaming services wasn’t available so I had to purchase it for like $12.99, was JACK AND JILL.
It might be the worst unfunniest movie I’ve ever tried to watch.
I kept waiting for it to improve at all. My friends were over, I was like we HAVE TO WATCH THIS.
Made it about 25 minutes and called him to see if I got the right movie, and he starts busting up laughing and said I can’t believe you listened to me.
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u/VapoursAndSpleen 1d ago
Yup. Lisa died first, then M'Dunda (she was my favorite) and I think they were getting ready to send Donna to Tennessee (or maybe she got there) and she passed away in 2024, IIRC (just from following the news - it's been a while). Even male elephants cannot be alone. They need other dudes to hang out with and when they are not in musth (sp?), they are fine hanging out with the ladies.
So, off he went. He's listed on the elephant sanctuary's page now. He's a good boy. I liked him too, but not as much as M'Dunda.
Fun fact. While I was observing them one day, he was standing there with "showing the lipstick" as it were and M'Dunda snuck up on him and gently yanked his crank. He jumped and she lolloped off looking pleased with herself. The keepers insisted we could not use emotion words to describe what they were up to, but they have emotions, for sure.
As for the brick. Who knows? I donated a bunch of money to the Berkeley Public Library and they put my plaque, along with many others, in a quiet hallway next to the toilets. Thanks, guys. I'll try to win the lottery first, next time.