Australia: Zoo slammed for elephant's 'under-age pregancy'

Times of London ^ | 02/14/08 | Philippe Naughton

[CougarGA7]

guilty

[squidly]

Does this mean that if she was in the wild, no male elephant would have knocked her up?

[VRWCmember]

But Erica Martin, who heads the Asia Pacific office of the International Fund for Animal Welfare, said that allowing such a young elephant to get pregnant was the equivalent of allowing your 12-year-old daughter to become pregnant”.

“It is completely irresponsible,” she said.

So is Erica advocating a pachyderm abortion?

[Ezekiel]

Sydney's Taronga Zoo has been reprimanded by animal rights activists for letting an Asian elephant fall pregnant even though she is only nine years old.

Mohammed the papa?

[org.whodat]

animal rights activists

Wacko's incorporated

[Young Werther]

They should Condom the prevert!!!!!

[dennisw]

Who the baby daddy? The alpha male elephant?

[Tai_Chung]

Is she advocating abstinence or safe sex?

[TigerLikesRooster]

drug-dealing gansta elephant.

It was also a date rape. /sarc

[Louis Foxwell]

Elephant condoms, a truly stupendous concept.

[Chickensoup]

fall pregnant

I love that low class Britishism “ fall pregnant “ like it is something that just happens...out of the blue.

“I was prancing down the street and all of a sudden I found that I fell pregnant.”

[Adammon]

Elephant condoms, a truly stupendous concept.

Why's that? I have to use that size already :D :D :D

[JillValentine]

Twenty years ago, this would have been satire.

Also, according to an animal facts page on Asian elephants, they live on average 60 years in the wild and 80 in captivity. The article has the numbers mixed up. I wonder if that was a mistake or a deliberate ploy by the leftie paper to make zoos look bad.

[Oztrich Boy]

But Erica Martin, who heads the Asia Pacific office of the International Fund for Animal Welfare, said that allowing such a young elephant to get pregnant was the equivalent of allowing your 12-year-old daughter to become pregnant”.

Well that was the age decided by Mother Nature . Isn't demanding elephants following cultural norms set by human society a little specieist?

[mountainlyons]

I don’t remember any elephants at the Sydney Zoo all I remember is a loud Lion. That was 40 years ago next month on R&R though.

[Waco]

Ya can’t make this s-it up. Can ya, huh???

[Young Werther]

Are you calling me stupen????