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Los Angeles, CA - May 11: A zoo attendee passes by animal rights activist Peggy Beal, right, as she protests in front of the Los Angeles Zoo to stop the transfers of elephants Billy and Tina on Sunday, May 11, 2025 in Los Angeles, CA. The zoo recently put a pause on its elephant program and announced their intention to transfer Billy and Tina to an elephant habitat at the Tulsa Zoo. (Juliana Yamada / Los Angeles Times)

Judge denies emergency motion to stop transfer of L.A. Zoo elephants Billy and Tina

A judge denied an emergency motion that would have halted the transfer of Billy and Tina the elephants from the L.A. Zoo to the Tulsa Zoo, instead of a sanctuary, where many advocates had hoped they would go.

FILE - In this Aug. 9, 2013 photo provided by the Nevada Department of Wildlife, Carl Lackey, a long-time Nevada Department of Wildlife biologist, and a dog named ''Rooster'' chase after a California black bear after it was captured and re-released to the wild in the Carson Range southwest of Carson City, Nevada. Wildlife biologists and forest rangers at Lake Tahoe and across the West have been preaching the mantra for decades: Don't feed the bears! But a new study by scientists at the University of Nevada suggests it's okay to feed the birds at least the mountain chickadees on a ridge that bears their name on the north shore of a lake near the California-Nevada line. (John Axtell/Nevada Department of Wildlife via AP, File)
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Boster, Mark –– B58934855Z.1 LOS ANGELES, CA., DECEMBER 16, 2010: Billy, the 25–year–old Bull Asian elephant takes a shower in the waterfall at the $42 million–dollar Elephants of Asia exhibit opening at the L.A. Zoo December 16, 2010. Two other female Asian elephants, Tina and Jewel who are kept apart from Billy round out the exhibit(Mark Boster/Los Angeles Times).

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Our friendly neighborhood fence lizard: Why Californians love this reptile

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