Dickerson Park Zoo staff are mourning the loss of a longtime resident. Matriarch elephant Connie, known to the public as Pinky, was euthanized Friday after she lay down and was too weak to get back up. The zoo announced in August that Connie's health was declining because of advancing kidney disease. Her condition had rapidly declined in recent days.
Preliminary necropsy results will be known this week, but pathology reports will not be finalized for some time.
Connie came to Dickerson Park Zoo in late 1981 from the Zoological Gardens in Abilene, Texas.