9 young elephants find new home in Mexican zoo

By ARMANDO MONTANOEMOKE BEBIAK

Published June 11, 2012 10:47pm ET

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9 young elephants find new home in Mexican zoo — In this photo taken Friday, June 8, 2012, "sub-adults" African elephants eat hay at their new habitat of the Africam Safari wildlife preserve, near Puebla, Mexico. The nine elephants from Namibia needed a new home and the owner of a 900-acre wildlife preserve in central Mexico jumped at the chance to buy them and add them to his menagerie that includes ostriches, lemurs, giraffes, zebras and monkeys. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) | Andres Leighton

PUEBLA, Mexico (AP) — It was the stuff of a major film studio’s next animation project: Nine African baby elephants orphaned after their parents were poached, but then miraculously rescued to a wild game park in Latin America. In the highlands of central Mexico, pee wee pachyderms the size of Volkswagen Beetles could wander around, wide-eyed as they munched on tortillas and donned sombreros in their new home.

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