DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) The Dallas Zoo will be taking in 18 elephants from Africa soon, despite an effort to stop the transfer. The animals from Swaziland are in route to DFW today. The nonprofit group Friends of Animals filed a request for a restraining order and is suing the US Fish and Wildlife Service which issued a permit to the zoo for the transfer. The group wants the animals to stay in their homeland, but the country is drought-stricken. For the transfer, the animals have to be crated, sedated, then loaded onto a plane. The zoo said the elephants were already sedated by the time the order was filed. The group says the zoo secretly sent the plane to Africa to load the animals without informing the court or the media.
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