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CBS News | The Wisdom Of Zoos | June 12, 2005

The only elephants visible these days at the Lincoln Park Zoo's once-popular exhibit are the bronze mother and baby on a nearby drinking fountain. Even the signs by the empty enclosure have been removed.

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