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Elephant Calf Lily Rescued by Oregon Zoo

Elephant Saved!

A new $400,000 deal will keep the elephant calf at the zoo. Winston Ross reports.

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The Oregon Zoo’s adorable baby Asian elephant just turned 3 months old, and she’s a little firecracker, if you can call an elephant about to crack 500 pounds “little.”

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Lily—that’s what the public voted to name her—was standing up in her first 10 minutes, zoo director Kim Smith tells The Daily...

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