The L.A. Zoo announced on April 22 its decision to relocate Billy and Tina to Tulsa Zoo’s 17-acre Elephant Experience and a 10-plus-acre wooded preserve, allowing them to join an Asian elephant herd, consisting of males Sneezy and Hank, and females Sooky, Booper and Connie. A date for the move has not been announced.

The Tulsa Zoo said the request to block the move of Asian elephants Billy and Tina from the Los Angeles Zoo was denied.

A judge denied an emergency motion that would have halted the transfer of Billy and Tina the elephants from the L.A. Zoo to the Tulsa Zoo, instead of a sanctuary, where many advocates had hoped they would go.