They feed her a special diet every day, as she had lost all but one of her four teeth around 30 years ago and probably due to resulting difficulty with her digestion has suffered from constipation for some time.
Zoo officials and visitors to Inokashira Park Zoo in western Tokyo are looking forward to seeing one of its most popular residents, Asian elephant Hanako, turn 65 in January and become the oldest elephant ever in Japan.
''She likes humans so much,'' Miwa Saito, 28, one of the four keepers who look after Hanako told Kyodo News.
