In addition to the 11 starved tigers, at least 10 other animals at the zoo died in the same period, although some reports put the number at 22 and others 30.
The two elephants have been suffering from tuberculosis, and the city authorities have insisted that they should be put to sleep as they pose a threat to other animals in the zoo and its visitors.
"Zoo officials encourage lawmakers to pass a bill quickly to ensure public safety and protect the welfare of animals, " the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium said in a news release.
The zoo stressed that all animals are kept in quarantine as a precautionary measure before being allowed to enter the general zoo population.
Now investors are watching "Madagascar, " the story of zoo animals who find themselves in the wild, very closely.
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It's about a bunch of pampered New York City Zoo animals who wind up in the wilds of Madagascar.
However, some animal welfare organisations, including Advocate for Animals, have "strongly criticised" the zoo's plans to start breeding in captivity.
At Duluth's Lake Superior Zoo, where a group of barnyard animals drowned in the flood, and a polar bear and two seals temporarily escaped, 200 volunteers dug out exhibits from mudslides and cleaned out debris on Saturday.
In fact they don't even call it a zoo, it is a wildlife park, the animals are slightly more free.
Those states, and New Hampshire in particular, remain the petting zoo of presidential politics where voters can see, touch and smell the animals.
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The Tete d'Or zoo, established in Lyon in 1865, has about 1, 000 animals in its care and runs a number of breeding programs, according to its website.
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