The oldest Asian elephant in Japan will turn 65 next month and officials at the Inokashira Park Zoo in western Tokyo say they're planning a party for her.
The elephant, named Hanako, has been living at the zoo for more than 50 years and has never had a major disease or injury, her keepers say.
"She likes people very much," Miwa Saito, 28, one of four keepers who look after the pachyderm, told Kyodo News.
Hanako is fed about 120 to 175 pounds per day of fruit and vegetables, fresh grass and hay and bread, keepers said. Her food is cut into small pieces since the elephant lost all but one of her four teeth about 30 years ago.
(UPI)
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