Famous Elephant, Packy, Euthanized by Oregon Zoo

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Packy, a well-known 54-year-old elephant at Oregon Zoo, has just been euthanized. Though the zoo claims that Packy was euthanized because he failed to respond to treatments for drug-resistant tuberculosis, animal advocates insist that the elephant was not suffering and should not have been killed.

Link: NBC News

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