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Gita (elephant)
Gita was a 48-year-old Asian Elephant who died at the Los Angeles Zoo on 10 June 2006. Gita's death prompted dozens of animal rights activists, including In Defense of Animals, to accuse the zoo of neglecting and endangering its animals by placing them in unsatisfactory living conditions, and fueled a years-long debate in the city government over the ethics of keeping elephants in a zoo at all.
==Life at the zoo==
Gita came to the Los Angeles Zoo from India in 1959. She was the most placid of the zoo's elephants, and was taken on a walkabout around the zoo each morning before it opened. She led the procession of elephants across Griffith Park in 1966 when the zoo moved from its original Griffith Park location to its present one.〔
For 2 years prior to her death, Gita and another female elephant, Ruby,〔 were kept in a small, behind-the-scenes barn with a concrete floor, which activists claim exacerbated Gita's joint and foot problems.〔 Gita suffered from osteomyelitis and arthritis, and underwent an operation in September 2005 to remove an infected bone from one of her toes. She was fitted with a specially-made shoe at the time. A veterinarian examined her on the Friday before her death and gave her a good report.
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