Monday, March 23, 2009
Dallas Zoo tries to prove it likes elephants with new exhibit
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DALLAS — Still smarting from the bad press it received last summer after its Jenny-the-Elephant debacle, the Dallas Zoo is crowing about its fancy new "African Savanna" exhibit that it hopes will prove it likes elephants.
But is it really better for Jenny? Right now she's stuck in a quarter of an acre, and she'll move to a 5- to 6-acre enclosure, but she'll have to share that with at least five other elephants. One advocate points to a Science article that says the life expectancy of zoo-born African elephants in captivity is 16.9 years versus 56 years in an animal reserve; and that elephants raised in zoos suffer from foot problems, herpes, tuberculosis, and infanticide.
Still, the cycle goes on: Dallas Zoo has new animals arriving "by the truckloads".
Posted by T.G.
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jtmbls Anonymous
Selfish, selfish people.
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Christin Richard Verified
Is this what all of the fuss was about last Wednesday? The Zoo was packed with traffic backed-up in both directions on I-35 at Marsalis.
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Travis Bush Verified
"Is this what all of the fuss was about last Wednesday?"
Pretty sure Spring Break caused a lot of that..
7 months, 3 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Christin Richard Verified
Ah yes! I don't think about that since I graduated a couple of years ago. I sure miss that little break.
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