Yangon zoo's oldest Asian elephant Mo Mo celebrates 69th birthday

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Yangon zoo's oldest Asian elephant Mo Mo celebrates 69th birthday

STORY: Yangon zoo's oldest Asian elephant Mo Mo celebrates 69th birthday DATELINE: Oct. 30, 2022 LENGTH: 0:02:02 LOCATION: YANGON, Myanmar CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Yangon Zoological Garden 2. various of people visiting the zoo 3. various of elephant Mo Mo's birthday celebration STORYLINE: Mo Mo, an Asian elephant who is the oldest at the Yangon Zoological Garden in Myanmar, celebrated her 69th birthday on Saturday. As children and other spectators sang to mark her birthday, the Yangon zoo's oldest animal Mo Mo chomped on an assortment of fruits and vegetables arranged in the shape of a rectangle cake. "We celebrated her birthday annually since 2013, with edible decorations and massive cakes made from fruits and vegetables," Kyaw Ye Thiha Pe, head of the Yangon Zoological Garden, said. Mo Mo already outlived an Asian elephant's typical life expectancy of nearly 50 years, he said. "The grand elephant Mo Mo is a virgin. She lived at the Yangon Zoo since 1961 when she was brought from Kaya

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