AFFTON, Mo. (AP) - Grant’s Farm will no longer keep elephants at the attraction in St. Louis County after four of them died at the farm this year.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that leaders at the attraction owned by Anheuser-Busch decided Saturday to end the elephant display after all four of their elephants died this year.
The farm, which is home to the Budweiser Clydesdales and other animals, plans a tribute to the elephants when it reopens next spring.
The final elephant, 15-year-old Max, died Wednesday. Two others - 38-year-old Toby and 34-year-od Mickey - both died earlier this month.
A fourth elephant, Bud, died in March at age 34.
The farm was built by Ulysses S. Grant on land given to him and his wife by his father in 1848.
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