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Beijing's elephant goes to marry Shandong's "husband"

www.chinanews.cn 2006-05-11 16:18:54

Liya, a female elephant in the Beijing Zoo, reached the Jinan Zoo in
Shandong Province after 10 hours of tossing trip on May 10 and finally
met her would-be husband Yakun. Both of them are Indian elephants. Liya,
a gift from Sri Lanka, is 27 years old and weighs 3.5 tons, while Yakun
is aged 20 and weighs nearly 5 tons. Yakun is tame, clever and never
choosy about food, though stubborn sometimes.

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