Friends of Woodland Park Zoo Elephants

3 Letters to the editor appear in the Seattle P-I, one from an elephant advocate entitled “Imagine what it’s like to get little or no exercise.”

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Trendy as Seattle is, the city may have a hard time getting its head around an emerging idea at zoos. Some of the nation’s biggest zoos are letting their elephants go.

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The Animal and Plant Inspection Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture is seeking advice from the public on what to do about problem feet in elephants.
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When the Philadelphia Zoo, the nation’s first, opened in 1874, its curators bought an elephant from a traveling circus and chained it to a tree.

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More than half of the 78 zoos that exhibit elephants plan to construct bigger homes. Yet a widening circle of critics now question whether elephants belong in zoos at all.

Read the full story in the USA Today