The last elephants at the Los Angeles Zoo have been quietly moved to a zoo in Oklahoma despite lawsuits seeking to have them transferred to a sanctuary where they could live out their days with more room to roam.

TMZ reported that the elephants were put into crates and loaded onto a semi-truck around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday, citing sources connected to the LA Zoo.

For years, advocates have been fighting for these two to be sent to a sanctuary, but the city and the zoo went a different route. Last month, the LA Zoo announced that Billy and T