Perth Zoo loses Trisha, the elephant, at 65 years of age

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In January, I wrote that Perth Zoo’s Asian elephant, Trisha, turned 65 and was given an appropriate cake. You can catch up here if you’d like to: https://www.mylot.com/post/3493882/tricia-turns-65 Sadly, Trisha has now died. One of the oldest elephants in the world, Trisha died of age-related conditions. She arrived in Perth in January, 1963, and came from Ho Chi Minh City (then Saigon) via Singapore. A keeper said that Tricia ‘lived through an era when zoos were a random collection of animals kept for human enjoyment’. She was named after the 1962 Miss Australia, Tricia Reschke. After living in a concrete enclosure for the start of her stay, the enclosure gradually changed to include a swimming pool, trees, a mud wallow, scratching poles, a heated barn, and sleeping mounds. In 1992, she was joined by three young elephants from Malaysia. The two remaining Perth elephants will now be rehomed in other states to be part of a herd setting. Perth Zoo doesn’t have the room to accommodate elephants in a herd situation. I don't have a photo of Trisha but the one I've used shows elephants in the Singapore Zoo.