COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo (CMZoo) says one of its African elephants, 48-year-old Kimba, has died.
The CMZoo says it decided to humanely euthanize Kimba on Monday after she was suffering from lethargy and decreased appetite. They say Kimba has dealt with these issues before and been able to recover, but did not recover to “the quality of health she deserved” after treatment.
Kimba was the second-oldest in the zoo’s herd of female African elephants. The zoo brought her in at three years old in 1981. She was brought over with Lucky, who is now 46 and is still at CMZoo…