Lucy is a female elephant born in the wild in Sri Lanka and orphaned, who came through the Pinnawala orphanage and arrived at the Edmonton Valley Zoo in Canada on 19 May 1977, at about two years old. She has long breathing problems (she breathes only through her mouth) and a uterine tumour under treatment; medical assessments found her unfit to travel, so she stays in Edmonton despite campaigns to move her to a sanctuary. The zoo marked her 50th birthday on 1 July 2025.