Sophie, an elderly Asian elephant at the Little Rock Zoo, was humanely euthanized this morning after years of illness.

Two of those came in the past year, with Shaunzi, a 53-year-old female Asian elephant being euthanized in January 2024 and Jewel, a 61-year-old female meeting the same fate just 12 months earlier ...

In January, reports say, the elephant broke the windshields of a truck and a tuk-tuk before running amok in a nearby butter bean farm and eating the crop. The incident was the latest in a series ...