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 Animals  Simone - 43 days ago - philly.com Petal, the Philadelphia Zoo's beloved African elephant, died of acute heart and lung failure after she fell on her side while sleeping, zoo officials said yesterday.
What's more, the 52-year-old pachyderm, the oldest of her kind in an American zoo,
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 Animals Simone - 147 days ago - ga0.org Prompted by the death last week of the 39-year-old African elephant Keke at the Dallas Zoo, IDA wrote a letter to Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert urging permanent closure of the Zoo's elephant exhibit, and transfer of the surviving elephant, Jenny, to a
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 Animals Simone - 164 days ago - thepetitionsite.com Urge The Board of Directors at San Antonio Zoo to follow the lead of other large zoos and release Lucky to the Elephant Sanctuary where her needs can be better met.
Lucky the last surviving elephant at San Antonio Zoo is lucky only in that she has
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 Animals Simone - 184 days ago - detnews.com When the Detroit Zoo shut its elephant exhibition in 2005 and sent their two pachyderms packing for California, patrons and zoo officials could at least stomach the loss knowing the pair would have more comfortable digs: a temperate climate and larger
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 Animals Simone - 259 days ago - english.ohmynews.com When we mention zoos, Japanese people first think of elephants. Many of us know an old song for children in which mentions their long trunks.
According to the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums latest database, we have already more than 50
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 Animals Simone - 365 days ago - newsfromrussia.com A nervous female elephant at Moscow zoo killed its handler on Wednesday with a hit of its leg while being moved onto a truck.
Elephant handlers at Moscow city zoo had been trying to load three African elephants onto a specially designed truck to
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 Animals Simone - 432 days ago - dailycamera.com Should the Denver Zoo spend $52 million to increase the size of its Asian elephant habitat and boost the number of captive elephants from two current residents to as many as eight, who they'll keep in what they call an "elephant park" furnished with a
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 Animals Simone - 451 days ago - ga0.org Elephants at the St. Louis Zoo are needlessly suffering and dying prematurely. The Zoo does not provide the space, climate or natural conditions that elephants need, nor do they have room to expand. Please "take action" and write to Mayor Francis Slay
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 Animals Simone - 479 days ago - brisbanetimes.com.au AN AMERICAN elephant-care specialist head-hunted by the Zoological Parks Board little more than a year ago has resigned, citing animal neglect as the reason.
Jason Kauntze-Cockburn has terminated his four-year contract after only one year at Western
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 Animals Simone - 507 days ago - ktuu.com There is renewed concern about the condition of Maggie, the Alaska Zoo's elephant, after two incidents last week where Maggie laid down and needed help to get back up. Today a group of Anchorage residents took that concern to the streets.
The zoo says
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 Animals Simone - 510 days ago - montereyherald.com Alaska's only elephant had to be hoisted to her feet for the second time in a week, renewing concerns about the health of the 7,500-pound animal.
Maggie was down for six or seven hours before she was lifted upright Wednesday in her enclosure at the
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 Animals Simone - 515 days ago - elephantinformation.com Maggie is the only elephant in Alaska, living a solitary existence at the Alaska Zoo where she endures cramped conditions and a sub-arctic climate. Elephants are very social animals, and dear Maggie, if she isnt freed to go to sanctuary will die.
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 Animals Simone - 525 days ago - savewildelephants.com The lives of elephants in zoos typically are far shorter than their 70-year life expectancy. More than half of the 51 elephants who have died at AZA-accredited facilities since 2000 never even reached the age of 40.
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 Animals Simone - 529 days ago - lobsa.org It is well documented that keeping elephants in urban zoos causes physical and psychological health problems for elephants. According to a study elephants in U.S. zoos die on average at 34 years which is half of elephants' natural 70 year lifespan. Th
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 Animals Simone - 578 days ago - latimes.com The Los Angeles Zoo is expected to announce today that it is retiring its female African elephant, Ruby, to an animal sanctuary in Central California.
The decision ends months of speculation over whether the pachyderm would go to another zoo or a
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