Sabu the elephant receives a joyous homecoming

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The Cincinnati Zoo elephants can now trumpet with joy as fellow elephant Sabu, a beloved 10,000-pound bull elephant, returned to Cincinnati after a two-year stint at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.

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