Woodland Park Zoo officials “vigorously dispute” claims that they are not providing sufficient care for Bamboo, a 39-year-old Asian elephant who grew up at the zoo, was transferred to Tacoma last summer and returned to Seattle this month.
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Seattle has little to be proud of in its recent handling of one of its zoo’s signature animals, Bamboo. The elephant deserves better.
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The death of a beloved pachyderm in Los Angeles intensifies the growing pressure on zoos to rethink their animal exhibits.
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Fitting in can be difficult for elephants. At least that’s been the case lately with Bamboo, the 39-year-old, 8,000-pound Asian elephant who moved from the Woodland Park Zoo to the Point Defiance Zoo in Tacoma last August because she wasn’t getting along with another, much younger elephant there.
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Animal rights activists have called for the resignation of the director of the Los Angeles Zoo, holding him responsible for the death of a 48-year-old Asian elephant named Gita.
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Woodland Park Zoo has harmed a 39-year-old Asian elephant named Bamboo and should move her to an elephant sanctuary in Tennessee, an animal-rights group said in a lawsuit filed Monday.
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Former WPZ director, David Hancocks, writes an excellent letter about the poor conditions of captive zoo elephants and the need to move them to sanctuaries.
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