L.A. Zoo Elephants Billy, Tina Transferred to Tulsa Zoo Beneath 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 underneath the duvet of darkness final evening … TMZ has discovered.

Sources linked to the L.A. Zoo inform us Billy and Tina had been eliminated round 1:30 AM Tuesday and, presumably, loaded as much as be shipped to Tulsa Zoo — a controversial transfer that prompted protests, a lawsuit and an offended letter to L.A. Mayor Karen Bass … which Cher and several other celebs signed.

We’re informed 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 technique to Oklahoma.

Advocates for Billy and Tina have been all around the L.A. Zoo for years, as a result of Billy and Tina, Asian elephants, have been stored in an enclosure far too small for them.

Zoo officers say they will have extra room to roam in Tulsa, however because the letter to Mayor Bass mentioned, “it’s almost unattainable to humanely preserve elephants in conventional zoos.”