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World Elephant Day dedicated to the preservation and protection of the world's elephants is marked today, on August 12. “Visit the zoo to congratulate Grand Junior the elephant!” the zoo’ officials said in a statement posted on Yerevan Zoo’s Facebook page.

What measures have zoo managers taken to make the day of Yerevan Zoo’s only elephant festive, what presents await Grand Junior?
Panorama.am learned from Yerevan Zoo that no festive events are held on World Elephant Day, but the zoo workers providing care for animals assured us that they do their best to turn every day of Grand Junior into a holiday.

“The elephant that has lived Yerevan for over a year does not need any gifts at the moment,” the zoo officials said.
In the words of Yerevan zoo workers, the joy and pleasure that both children and adult visitors feel on seeing Grand Junior is the best present for the male elephant that has turned 8. The most important problem is to find a mate for Grand, Director of Yerevan Zoo Ruben Khachatryan said.

“If we fail to find a mate for our elephant by 2017, we will have to abandon Grand Junior because keeping a single elephant is contrary to the rules of European zoo,’ R. Khachatryan explained.



The photo is taken from Zoo’s Facebook page.