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It is, not surprisingly, difficult to get Daryl Hannah to take you to her bed. We're still broaching the subject when she violently shakes my crotch, inspects my carabiners and tells me to try to relax. Then, in the darkness, I grab a rope and inchworm 50 feet up...
She was the grand old?lady of the Los Angeles Zoo, beloved by employees and millions of Angelenos who periodically flocked?to the zoo to visit her. But when Gita, a 48-year-old?Asian elephant, was found dead in her enclosure Saturday morning,?tears were mixed with anger on...
"I said I would not be surprised if Gita was dead in six months," says veterinarian Mel Richardson, who testified last September before city officials who were considering the since-approved $39 million plan to improve the L.A. Zoo's elephant exhibit. "It's been nine months. Gita had osteomyelitis...
Gita's death has intensified the already-mounting pressure on zoos to re-think their elephant exhibits. Last week, an elephant at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo in Syracuse, New York, lost her calf in utero."These two incidents intensify the pressure on zoos to aknowledge what they're in denial...
Many animal-behavior experts also oppose zoo confinement for giraffes, gazelles and other animals designed by evolution to run freely across miles of savannah. "What you see in zoos is just completely unnatural," says Marc Bekoff, an animal behaviorist at the University of Colorado. But most of all, Bekoff and...