Masahiro, foreground, and Yoshito, seen here at Osaka Tennoji Zoo in the city’s Tennoji Ward on Dec. 8, get along better these days than they did before. (Kengo Yasui)
OSAKA They may have combs instead of tusks, but for the current occupants of an elephant house at a zoo in this western city here, that is something to crow about.
Two roosters who have dodged death many times have taken a starring role while occupying a space designated for pachyderms.
The cage at Osaka Tennoji Zoo in the city’s Tennoji Ward was left without its inhabitants when the last of the zoo’s herd of elephants died three years ago.