![]() In 1977, the proprietors relocated all six elephants to circuses and zoos across the US. That same year, Sleepy died, and the corporation relocated Happy, Grumpy, Sneezy, Doc, Dopey, and Bashful to the still operational The Lion Country Safari in Loxahatchee, Florida. in Laguna Hills, California, which named the calves after the dwarves in Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. “Captured as a baby, probably from Thailand, in the early 1970s, along with six other calves, possibly from the same herd,” according to The New York Times, she was imported to the US and sold for $800 to the now defunct Lion Country Safari, Inc. Happy is a female Asian elephant who was born in the wild in 1971.
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