A zoo near Tokyo, struggling to provide water for its animals amid a prolonged power outage due to a typhoon earlier this week, resumed operations on Saturday, encouraged by a wave of moral and material support from the public.Ichihara Elephant Kingdom, a public zoo in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture, had been closed since the storm triggered a massive blackout on the Boso Peninsula, southeast of the capital.In the absence of electricity, zookeepers were forced to cut back on water provisions to elephants and other animals, as an in-house power generator has been the only way to pump water up fr…READ FULL ARTICLE
