Tania the elephant has been stuck in solitary confinement in a Romanian zoo called Tirgu Mures for more than 35 years. She is ill, mistreated and desperately lonely.
Tania has a foot infection, but she's forced to stand in her own urine and feces all day. She's incredibly stressed: activists report that she sways from side to side and rubs her head against her enclosure, both signs of extreme unhappiness in elephants. And perhaps worst of all, she's desperately lonely.