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    "Julie and Kariba: two elephants getting a second chance in Portugal",
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  "textContent": "BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Kariba has lived alone in a Belgian zoo for years. Julie has been with the Cardinali circus in Portugal since 1988, when she was caught in the wild and sold to a German zoo before the family acquired her. Both are African elephants in their 40s. And both are […]\n\nThe post Julie and Kariba: two elephants getting a second chance in Portugal first appeared on The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News.",
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