World’s Saddest Elephant – Hanako

World’s saddest elephant, Hanako, d1es at age sixty-nine.

Hanako lived in a sad life, inside an enclosed space at Inokashira Park Zoo, like a pris0ner. No grass nor trees she experienced for many, many years.

One thing made her life different when one visitor on the zoo made an appeal to the public to let her go.

She wrote on an online post saying, that the Inokashira Park “one of the cruelest, most archaic zoos in the modern world.”

One tourist, Ulara Nakagawa, said the elephant “just stood there almost lifeless — like a figurine.”

Unfortunately, Inokashira Park hesitated to let Hanako free to the sanctuary, insisting that she was being happy and enthusiastic.

The zoo, instead, talked to Carol Buckley, an animal welfare expert, regarding the changes that will happen to Hanako’s home.

All things were settled and done but all were too late, Hanako was found collapsed on Thursday morning, no longer move in the cage. She passed away few hours later then.

She spent nearly 7 decades alone, and no trees surrounding her, now she passed away at age sixty-nine.

Elephants are known to be social animals, who are friendly, cheerful, and full of energy stored up.

Hanako was born in Thailand in 1947. At age 2, she was transferred and shipped to Ueno Zoo in Japan, replacing other elephants who had di3d during WWII, this report is according to the Japan Times.

After a few years in Ueno Zoo, she was transferred to Inokashira Park zoo, where she spent the remaining years of her life, for nearly six decades.

She has been deprived of friendship and interaction with other animals and affection from human beings, making her violent and aloof, and worse, dangerous and wild.

She lost all her teeth, and had some digestive abnormalities that made her really prone to diseases.

Let’s not allow this to happen with other animals, let’s protect and save them from his kind of condition.