Ellen died less than a month later, and the zoo found itself with two elephants and again out of compliance. With a shortage of elephants in zoos, it's only a matter of time before this zoo is forced to end its elephant program. It should save Little Rock taxpayers some money and the elephants a lot of misery by ending its elephant program now. Simply put, if elephants cannot live in an environment which closely emulates thir natural habitat, they should not be in zoos of any kind.
After the death of Mary in 2011, In Defense of Animals, urged the zoo not to seek a cage-mate for remaining elephant Ellen but to instead close its outdated exhibit and send Ellen to a spacious, natural-habitat sanctuary. Instead, the zoo recklessly rushed in two older elephants acquired from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus - even though Ellen and one of the elephants were predictably incompatible – in order to meet the required AZA minimum of three elephants.
Ellen died less than a month later, and the zoo found itself with two elephants and again out of compliance. With a shortage of elephants in zoos, it's only a matter of time before this zoo is forced to end its elephant program. It should save Little Rock taxpayers some money and the elephants a lot of misery by ending its elephant program now. Simply put, if elephants cannot live in an environment which closely emulates thir natural habitat, they should not be in zoos of any kind.
aprilbiggs 1 month ago
After the death of Mary in 2011, In Defense of Animals, urged the zoo not to seek a cage-mate for remaining elephant Ellen but to instead close its outdated exhibit and send Ellen to a spacious, natural-habitat sanctuary. Instead, the zoo recklessly rushed in two older elephants acquired from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus - even though Ellen and one of the elephants were predictably incompatible – in order to meet the required AZA minimum of three elephants.
aprilbiggs 1 month ago
Please note, this zoo has landed itself on the Top Ten List of Worst Zoos for Elephants of 2011...here's the "more" to the story (next post)
aprilbiggs 1 month ago