Live updates: Six elephants arrive at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo

[Omaha Steve]

Because of the severe drought it was cull them or bring them to the zoos. The zoos are providing millions for protecting the black rhinos!

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A crate carrying an elephant bound for the Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium is unloaded from a plane at Eppley Airfield on Friday.


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POSTED: FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 2016 1:00 AM | UPDATED: 6:50 PM, FRI MAR 11, 2016.
By Chris Peters / World-Herald staff writer

Omaha’s elephants arrived in Omaha earlier this evening and have been taken from Eppley Airfield to their new home at the Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium.

A Boeing 747 cargo plane arrived at Eppley at 4:11 p.m. today, delivering six elephants destined for the zoo. The elephants arrived from Wichita after a 36-hour journey that began in Swaziland, and included stops in Senegal and Fort Worth, Texas.

Omaha’s six elephants are part of a group of 17 elephants that came over from Big Game Parks in Africa. Initially, the zoo and its partners in Dallas and Wichita planned to receive a total of 18 elephants, but one died in December.

Follow along with live updates from the elephants' move. Story continues below.

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