Word: gita
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...visit to India, I observed that downtown Bombay appears to have stood still in time, while changes are more apparent in the city's suburbs. India's great strides in education, technology and medicine can prove to the world that the country is a force to be reckoned with. Gita Varughese Mississauga, Canada Your report on the Indian economy presented a rosy picture. But not only is there a growing disparity between rich and poor, there is also an increase in deforestation and pollution of rivers, groundwater and air, which could lead to environmental collapse. Ravi Sharma Calgary, Canada...
...fact, Gita has been at the center of a contentious debate over whether the L.A. Zoo should continue to exhibit elephants at all. In September the 8,000-pound pachyderm, who got her exercise on early-morning strolls before the zoo opened, had state-of-the art foot surgery to relieve bone disease that had led to arthritis, which is common among elephants living in captivity. Zoo officials had optimistically declared that Gita was on her way to a full recovery...
...according to newspaper accounts, two keepers found Gita about 5 a.m. Saturday morning sitting up dog-style in the outdoor part of her enclosure with her back legs tucked under her and her front legs outstretched. This position is especially dangerous for the circulatory systems of the giant elephants, who rarely sit down. All attempts to treat Gita failed, and officials have not announced the precise cause of Gita's death. L.A. Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa asked the city for "an independent, timely and exhaustive necropsy of Gita to determine the cause of Gita's death...
...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 about - that confining elephants in zoos causes them to suffer and die prematurely," says Suzanne Roy, program director for In Defense of Animals."Elephants in zoos repeatedly have stillbirths and experts we've talked to believe that the lack of exercise and physical fitness contribute to their inability to have...
...Whatever the ultimate outcome of these incidents, some of Gita's mourners expressed a sense of relief on her behalf.??"At least she was out of her pain," says Richardson