The Reunion That Started the Questions
In 1999, two Asian elephants named Shirley and Jenny were placed in the same enclosure at The Elephant Sanctuary in Hohenwald, Tennessee. They had not seen each other in 22 years. Within minutes, they were touching faces through the bars, vocalizing, and refusing to be separated. Sanctuary staff later confirmed through records that the two had briefly shared a circus together in the 1970s. Jenny had been a calf. Shirley had known her for less than a year.
