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SAN DIEGO — Tembo, a 48-year-old elephant, was euthanized at the San Diego Zoo after a sudden change in her health following longtime treatment for age-related ailments, the zoo announced Monday.
Tembo had lived at the zoo since 1983. Before that she was privately owned and had been an animal actor, the zoo said.
Tembo appeared in the 1974 television series “Born Free.”
Tembo was one of four elephants at the zoo. The others are an African bush elephant named Shaba and two Asian elephants, Mary and Devi.
African bush elephants can live 60 to 70 years in the wild.
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