{"id":5070,"date":"2025-06-22T10:35:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T10:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=5070"},"modified":"2025-06-22T10:35:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T10:35:51","slug":"former-circus-elephants-separated-for-22-years-cameras-catch-moment-they-reunite-for-the-1st-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=5070","title":{"rendered":"Former circus elephants separated for 22 years \u2013 cameras catch moment they reunite for the 1st time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"69\" data-end=\"204\">Some may disagree, but it\u2019s clear that animals have feelings\u2014love, grief, fear, and joy. Gone are the days of calling them mere beasts.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"206\" data-end=\"541\">One powerful example aired on PBS in 2000, showing the emotional reunion of two former circus elephants, Shirley and Jenny, after being separated for 22 years. The footage, captured at the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee, shows them instantly recognizing each other and sharing a heartfelt embrace\u2014proof of their deep emotional memory.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"543\" data-end=\"643\">Even their caretakers were stunned as the two rekindled a bond formed decades earlier in the circus.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"645\" data-end=\"682\">Watch their touching reunion below:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Shirley and Jenny Two Elephants Reunited After More Than 20 Years\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-77wtMxT3-M?feature=oembed\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some may disagree, but it\u2019s clear that animals have feelings\u2014love, grief, fear, and joy. Gone are the days of calling them mere beasts. One powerful example aired on PBS in 2000, showing the emotional reunion of two former circus elephants, Shirley and Jenny, after being separated for 22 years. The footage, captured at the Elephant&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=5070\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Former circus elephants separated for 22 years \u2013 cameras catch moment they reunite for the 1st time&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5071,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5070\/revisions\/5071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}