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63 Articles match "Elephants"

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Why Do Animals Exist?
They exist to be pigs and cows and chickens and zebras and elephants.  This weekend I got into a rather passionate debate with some friends of friends about animal rights. One of them was pretty educated about the evils of factory farming, and said that she didn’t eat much meat because she had to know where it came from. eaten by them?
Creature Talk - Tuesday, June 1, 2010
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Asian Demand for Ivory Pushing Elephants to Extinction
Tags: ivory wildlife trafficking extinction poaching elephants endangered species
Critter News - Tuesday, May 18, 2010
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Fight Continues to Release Lucy the Elephant
Here's an update on the battle to release the Lucy the Elephant to a sanctuary. She is the lone elephant at the Edmonton Zoo in Alberta, Canada. Tags: zoos animal sanctuary elephants
Critter News - Thursday, May 6, 2010
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  • Echo the Elephant Dies
    Echo, the elephant matriarch of a 40 member herd in Kenya has died from what is believed to be old age. Tags: elephants Echo appeared in the films sequels now popularly known as the ‘Echo Trilogy'.
    Critter News - Sunday, May 10, 2009
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  • Prominent Canadian Attorney Takes Up Cause of Lucy the Elephant
    Canadian Defense attorney Clayton Ruby has taken up the cause of getting Lucy the elephant released to an animal sanctuary. Now, the high-profile criminal lawyer will work to free a different kind of jailbird -- Lucy the elephant -- from a different kind of cage: Edmonton's Valley Zoo. Tags: elephants
    Critter News - Friday, September 18, 2009
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  • Suit Against Circus Owners Goes to Trial
    employee, claims the defendants inhumanely and illegally mistreat their Asian elephants and have done so for decades. According to the complaint, the defendants routinely beat elephants, violating the 1973 Endangered Species Act by hitting them with bull hooks. Tags: animal cruelty circus elephants
    Critter News - Thursday, October 23, 2008
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  • Ringling Brothers Circus Faces Lawsuit Over Elephants
    engages in these unlawful activities by routinely beating elephants to ‘train’ them, ‘discipline’ them, and keep them under control” and that the elephants are chained in place for long periods of time and frequently hit with bullhooks, a wooden pole about two feet long that has a sharp metal hook at one end.
    Critter News - Tuesday, February 17, 2009
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  • Fight Continues to Release Lucy the Elephant
    Here's an update on the battle to release the Lucy the Elephant to a sanctuary. She is the lone elephant at the Edmonton Zoo in Alberta, Canada. Tags: zoos animal sanctuary elephants
    Critter News - Thursday, May 6, 2010
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  • Elephants
    Penelope Wells sent a link to this uplifting story
    Animal Ethics - Thursday, March 22, 2007
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  • Elephants
    If you like nature programming (as I do), please make a note of this
    Animal Ethics - Saturday, March 31, 2007
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  • Graphic Photos of Baby Elephant "Taming"
    This post has three graphic pictures of a baby elephant allegedly being "trained" for the entertainment industry. Tags: animal cruelty entertainment elephants This is a new blog I came across called Paws4Life, The Reality of What Humans do. I'm thinking it's India?
    Critter News - Thursday, January 8, 2009
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  • Actress Lilly Tomlin Calls on Seattle Woodland Park Zoo to Release Elephants to Sanctuary
    Lilly Tomlin is in Seattle and spoke out about the conditions of elephants at the Woodland Park Zoo on behalf of the Northwest Animal Rights Network (NARN). Addressing supporters and the media at the Phinney Ridge Neighborhood Center, Tomlin said elephants in zoos across the country are suffering in confinement.
    Critter News - Monday, April 27, 2009
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  • San Antonio Zoo Accused of Elephant Mistreatment
    In Defense of Animals has taken up the cause of Lucky the elephant, the only elephant at the San Antonio Zoo, alleging poor conditions and emotional distress. Tags: zoos animal cruelty Texas elephants What amazes me is Lucky's age.49 years old. She has been at the San Antonio Zoo for 47 years. Is this right?
    Critter News - Wednesday, November 11, 2009
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