2 Letters to the editor appear, one in favor and one against the zoo’s elephant program.
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Month: June, 2007
Letters: Better to let kids see animals on nature shows
Letters: Free elephants: Death rate high
1 Letter appears in the Seattle Times pointing out the poor conditions and short life spans for elephants in zoos.
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Letters: “The zoo is hoping Chai is pregnant again?”
3 Letters appear in the Seattle Times in response to the death of 6-year-old elephant Hansa.
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Rethinking spaces where elephants can’t roam
It was just a single week ago, when Seattle’s celebrated, crowd-drawing 6-year-old female elephant, Hansa, perished, and I knew I had to open my mouth as well.
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Woodland Park Zoo: Make review visible
When a whole city is supremely sad over a zoo animal’s death, as a P-I story properly put it Saturday, there is an obligation to lay everything in front of the public.
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Hansa’s short life one of deprivation
The death of baby elephant Hansa undoubtedly will be a time of mourning for the staff at Woodland Park Zoo and for many of its visitors. It should also be a time for reflection.
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Group asks feds to look into Hansa’s death
An animal-rights group wants the U.S. Agriculture Department to investigate the death of Hansa, Woodland Park Zoo’s 6-year-old elephant who was found dead Friday morning.
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Hansa, Woodland Park Zoo elephant, dead at 6
Hansa, the 6 1/2-year-old elephant at Woodland Park Zoo, was found dead this morning inside the zoo’s elephant barn.
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Woodland’s elephant found dead
Hansa, Woodland Park Zoo’s 6-and-a-half-year-old elephant, was found dead Friday morning, closing the elephant exhibit for the day, according to zoo officials.
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