Lahore Zoo's only female elephant dies aged 35
Suzi was suffering from acute pain in legs.
LAHORE (Dunya News)- 35-year-old Suzi, the only female elephant of Lahore Zoo, has expired after prolonged illness during wee-hours of Saturday. She was suffering from acute pain in her legs.
According to details, Suzi was unable to sit since the last three days. At around 2PM, she sat after 98 hours of standing and at 6:30PM she breathed her last.
Suzi had arrived in Lahore in 1988 at the age of six.
The zoo administration had stopped rides on Suzi in 1999 owing to pain in her legs. The process was resumed again in 2001 but Suzi was unable to carry weight as disease was not cured completely. Similar attempts were made again in 2013. In initial phase, Suzi responded well but later administration was forced to stop rides.
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Lahore Zoo Director Shafqat Ali said that two doctors were looking after Suzi and foreign doctors were also contacted amid her illness.
Suzi was most favourite animal of the Zoo and was famous in children.
