Fort Worth Zoo was filled with families on Wednesday ... such as the 2-year-old baby elephant. "Nothing can replace it. My parents brought me when I was a kid, and I like to bring him as a kid.

Since it opened in 1909, this Texas zoo has been exposing Fort Worth residents and visitors to wildlife from around the world. When it first opened, the Fort Worth Zoo housed one lion, two bear ...

no U.S. zoo had welcomed surviving elephant twins Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work previously appeared in the Fort Worth ...