Cheshire Live reports. The great-grandmother was the long-time matriarch of the family herd of Asian elephants at Chester Zoo and had given birth to several calves in her time including Assam in 2002 and Anjan in 2018.Chester Zoo confirmed the sad news to Cheshire Live this afternoon, stating: "It is with an extremely heavy heart that we share news of the death of Asian elephant, Thi Hi Way."Elephant care experts at the charity zoo had, for some time, been helping her with daily medication and innovative hydrotherapy sessions but, sadly, the treatment programme finally began to lose effect.Following a period of intensive end-of-life care and an irreversible decline in her condition, the hugely difficult decision was made to put her to.
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