Critter News

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

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 49 years old. She has been at the San Antonio Zoo for 47 years. Is this right?

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Critter News

JANUARY 7, 2010

The ASPCA, Born Free USA (Animal Protection Institute), Animal Welfare Institute, Fund for Animals along with former Ringling animal trainer Tom Rider had accused the circus of shackling, confining and striking elephants with bullhooks, which have a sharp steel hook at one end. Tags: circus animal law elephants.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

The treatment of circus elephants went on trial in federal court Wednesday with animal rights groups accusing Ringling Bros. Tags: circuses us elephants endangered species. And they certainly have no right to use endangered species as performers. These are ENDANGERED species.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

An elephant holds vigil for a sick dog. This one-hour special will take a heartwarming look at these curious bonds and explore the emotional complexities behind unlikely animal friends. Here is a sneak peek of the elephant and the dog: Odd Friendships originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on September 24, 2009.

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Animal Person

JULY 3, 2009

Despite some shared evolutionary history, wolf morality is different from human morality and also from elephant morality and chimpanzee morality" (19). Tags: Books Ethics Language. The scientific investigation of morality, in humans and nonhumans alike, is in its infancy" (39).

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 16, 2009

We just pulled back, and we pulled back, and we pulled back, and ended with this tiny, tiny dot in the middle of the wide expanse of the Artic Ocean, and it was a very emotional moment for me. In my case, I suppose it would be filming the elephants caught in a sandstorm in the Okavango Delta. Tags: news.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2018

The hope was that they would be recovered with the tags attached. Prized for their feathers, most of the birds that are recovered do not have their tags, the biodata, attached. His dream is to find them still intact, attached to their tags, their biodata. Rist has de-feathered them as part of a black market enterprise.

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