L.A. Zoo Elephants Billy, Tina Transferred to Tulsa Zoo Under Cowl of Evening time

Cher is gonna be pissed! The beloved L.A. Zoo elephants she went to bat for — Billy and Tina — had been secreted outta the zoo beneath the quilt of darkness last night … TMZ has realized.

Sources associated to the L.A. Zoo inform us Billy and Tina had been eradicated spherical 1:30 AM Tuesday and, presumably, loaded as a lot as be shipped to Tulsa Zoo — a controversial switch that prompted protests, a lawsuit and an offended letter to L.A. Mayor Karen Bass … which Cher and several other different totally different celebs signed.

We’re instructed the elephant exhibit at L.A. Zoo was empty Tuesday morning — no elephants, no keepers and {the electrical} perimeter fence was off … clear indications the animals had been on their approach to Oklahoma.

Our sources say the elephants had been put into crates and loaded onto a semi-truck for the change to Tulsa Zoo. It’s unclear how prolonged the journey will take.

We reached out to a variety of L.A. Zoo officers, nonetheless no person’s referred to as once more, and L.A.’s Deputy Mayor — who oversees the zoo — hung up on us.