A 9,000-Pound Fish Out of Water, Alone in Alaska: "She played in the snow. She played the harmonica. She snacked on hot dog buns and hay, chewed on birch bark and snorted. Still, it was impossible to answer the question that is causing so much consternation: is Alaska's only elephant happy?...
But whether Maggie, a 22-year-old native of Zimbabwe, is depressed because she is spending another dark and freezing winter in Alaska has been the subject of a long and charged debate... Alaska Zoo officials decided to keep her in Anchorage for now but came up with an unusual proposal to improve her exercise situation: They plan to build this 9,120-pound elephant a treadmill."
