Maggie feeling the California love
“Alaskans keep asking for updates on Maggie the elephant — folks just can’t seem to get enough.” - KTUU.com
“Alaskans keep asking for updates on Maggie the elephant — folks just can’t seem to get enough.” - KTUU.com
“It finally happened, and on Valentine’s eve: The fence came down and Alaska’s favorite ex-pat pachyderm got up close with her new circle of friends.” - Alaska News
“The Performing Animal Welfare Society sanctuary in northern California says muddy weather is preventing a new African elephant from being brought into the pen.” - UPI.com
“Maggie captured the attention and hearts of people throughout the state and the Lower 48 this year when she became ill and collapsed. The event increased the pressure on the Alaska Zoo to find Maggie a new home in a warmer climate.” - KTUU.com
“This weekend, the nationally syndicated Animal Radio® airs coverage of the very controversial African elephant move from the Anchorage Alaska Zoo to her new home at PAWS (Performing Animal Welfare Society) near Sacramento, California.” - Best Syndication
“You can see a lot of wildlife in Alaska — bears, whales, eagles, and more — but you won’t find any elephants there.” - Deseret Morning News
Search page for Maggie on Mahalo Mahalo
“ELEPHANT WATCHERS: PAWS places limit of 20 minutes on viewing as some become hogs with online animal time.” - Anchorage Daily News
“Freshly arrived at her new digs in California, Maggie the elephant is still getting accustomed to other pachyderms at the Performing Animal Welfare Society’s elephant habitat - while PAWS itself is struggling to deal with Maggie’s popularity.” - Anchorage Daily News
“A 25-year-old African elephant named Maggie is safe and apparently very happy to be in her new California home after traveling all the way from Alaska.” - UPI.com
“Maggie, long the only elephant in Alaska, arrived in San Andreas on Friday to take up residence in a much warmer retirement home - the Performing Animal Welfare Society’s ARK 2000 elephant refuge.” - Recordnet.com
“Alaska’s only elephant, Maggie, arrived at her sunny new home in California Friday and was showing no ill effects from her 16 hour journey by truck and military transport plane, officials said. “She seems to love it here,” Kim Gardner, an official at the Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS), told Deutsche Presse- Agentur, dpa. “She really likes that sunshine.” - US World
“Though she originally moved to Alaska to provide companionship for another elephant, over the years Maggie blossomed into a star attraction and icon of the Alaska Zoo.” - KTUU.com
“After four decades of elephant-keeping, the Alaska Zoo prepared to hand over its beloved pachyderm Maggie to a sanctuary in California.” - sacbee.com
“The only elephant in the state of Alaska is flying to Fairfield.” - KQCA Sacramento
“Alaska’s only elephant is coming in from the cold. Maggie, a 25-year-old African elephant, will be flown today from The Alaska Zoo to the Performing Animal Welfare Society in balmy California.” - USATODAY.com
“Maggie the Alaskan African elephant is on her way to a new home in California following a visit by The Price is Right’s recently retired host Bob Barker. Yes, really.” - Environmental Graffiti
“For a bunch of loadmasters, life will truly imitate art the day after Halloween, now that the Air Force has agreed to fly Maggie, a sick elephant, aboard a C-17 Globemaster from Alaska to California.” - Air Force Times