COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Columbus Zoo’s baby elephant now has a name after it made its debut last month.
The baby Asian elephant is named Rita Jean, after Rita Jean Wolfe, a member of Wolfe family with deep ties to the zoo’s history.
The Wolf family encouraged the city to develop a zoo in 1926. The family contributed funds to the zoo’s first habitat and brought the first animals in 1927.
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“Rita Jean Wolfe embodied the same qualities we see in our elephants — strength, resilience and boundless compassion,” the zoo wrote in a social media post…