Elephant Odyssey Herd Walks Their Enclosure at the San Diego Zoo

Four Asian elephants walk across a sandy enclosure at San Diego Zoo in California.
Four Asian elephants walk across a sandy enclosure at San Diego Zoo in California.

Elephant Odyssey is an eight acre exhibit at the San Diego Zoo in Balboa Park, built in 2009 to house the zoo's herd of Asian elephants. The habitat was designed with pools, mud wallows, and varied terrain to encourage the walking and foraging elephants do across large home ranges in the wild. Three elephants walk single file along the fence line while a younger one stays near the building behind them.

Taken November 2011

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