Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

A handful Animal Person readers since May of 2006, when I started this then-daily blog, have asked me if I've read Joan Dunayer. Dunayer devotes a chapter each to the language used in hunting, zoos, "marine parks," vivisection and "animal agriculture." And now that I've read Animal Equality and begun Speciesism , I think I know why.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Donna Fernandes, president of the Buffalo Zoo, witnessed a wake for a female gorilla, Babs, who had died of cancer at Boston’s Franklin Park Zoo. In June 2006, Jane and I visited a chimpanzee sanctuary near Girona, Spain. Chimpanzees and elephants grieve the loss of family and friends, and gorillas hold wakes for the dead.

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 20, 2012

Dogs are likely to be true-born wet-nurses; in particular, it is related to whelp dogs, which are often used as step-mothers for young predators in the Zoos. In 2006, in Yalta private zoo (Ukraine) two white lions were left without mother’s care. Puma rejected her children and they were given to Mary.

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