Sounds like what Bill Conway said, but anyway, to an extent, if you keep elephants in captivity, you’re obligated to provide the best care for them. To do that, it’s expensive, but you have to build decent facility to meet their requirement. That money you have to invest. Beyond that, it might come to the point that artificial insemination become more common so that not everybody has to have a male elephant, and the story of moving male elephant, the stud, from one point to the other, it’s been discussed before, but that’s up to the individual zoos to decide.
