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Saturday, December 1, 2012

Glamour Beasts: The dark side of elephant captivity

An African elephant wanders the property of the Performing Animal Welfare Society sanctuary, a 2,300-acre nonprofit compound in the San Andreas foothills south of Sacramento. "This is where elephants come to die," says Pat Derby, co-founder of the sanctuary.