Zoos don't want to concede the inappropriateness of keeping elephants in such confines.

John Paul college keeps African elephants on campus.

He was imagining a farmer trying to build something to keep elephants away from his crops.

The zoo has kept elephants for more than a hundred years.

Most rajahs, Indian rulers, kept elephants for death by crushing.

The city council enacted a law requiring anyone keeping elephants to have such a weapon handy at all times.

"Remind me to tell you how to keep elephants away."

Farmers in the Zambezi Valley of Zimbabwe have hit on a novel way to keep elephants from trampling their fields.

At one time, elephant rides were also offered, but the zoo no longer keeps elephants after their last elephant died.

Keeping elephants in zoos has met with some controversy.