In the 2012 documentary Elefamilia, the Pittsburgh Zoo proudly showcases the births of elephants Angeline and Zuri in a barren stall in the zoo’s elephant barn. Zoo officials celebrated these births as conservation successes. But in the film, the Pittsburgh Zoo’s former CEO makes their true goal for captive breeding clear: not to protect elephants in the wild, but to replenish captive elephant populations so “there’s not a reason to take animals from the wild.” Yet the most disturbing moments ar