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Questionable Practices at the Calgary Zoo

Critter News

The Calgary Zoo is again under scrutiny as details emerged Friday about how a capybara, a species of giant South American rodent, died after becoming caught in a hydraulic door last weekend as it was being moved from one area to another. In November 2008, a virus killed a 15-month-old Asian elephant calf named Malti.

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Can we talk about Cecil the Lion?

10,000 Birds

And you’ve posted a link to a petition to an airline to ask them to stop transporting trophies. The killing of Cecil was equated with murder, a moral crime rather than a symptom of a ecological problem. Animal rights is concerned with individual animals, and their suffering and welfare. And that lions are really cute.

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