FILE - In a Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014 file photo, Joe Forys, curator of large mammals at the Audubon Zoo, looks at birthday cake smeared on the mouth of Panya the elephant, who ate the cake and melons as part of the Audubon Zoo's celebration of her 50th birthday in New Orleans. The Audubon Zoo says the 55-year-old female named Panya was euthanized Thursday, March 7, 2019 because irreversible kidney disease was hurting her quality of life. She was an endangered Asian elephant, and had lived at the zoo for 39 years. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
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