Activists blamed for causing another elephant to push her down

SF Gate. Com ^ | 3/8/04 | Demian Bulwa

[Dane]

Calle the ailing elephant died at the San Francisco Zoo on Sunday morning, hours after another elephant attacked her -- an attack that zoo officials are blaming on animal rights demonstrators who they say agitated the beasts.

Zoo veterinarians quietly euthanized Calle, a 37-year-old female Asian elephant, at about 5 a.m., after she dropped to her belly and rolled on her side.

[Dane]

Animal rights whackos strike again.

[KantianBurke]

Dunker found a solution in cocoa butter suppositories that caught on at other zoos and saved other elephants' lives.

Well there goes my appetite for the next few weeks.

[Walkingfeather]

Without a fair trial???

[WhiteyAppleseed]

Things like this happen when a jack_ss is around. Something for voters to consider in November.

[talleyman]

Sad bump...

[finnman69]

Dunker found a solution in cocoa butter suppositories that caught on at other zoos and saved other elephants' lives.


I'm sure Mark Morford's ears perked up at that idea.

[Lokibob]

 

This is strange.  In Salt Lake City zoo last night.  Look at the names.

 

http://www.sltrib.com/2004/Mar/03092004/utah/146011.asp

 

Elephant Kali dies after 50 years at zoo

Kali, a Hogle Zoo attraction since 1954, was about 59 years old. (Jameson Weston/Hogle Zoo, file photo)

By Greg Lavine
The Salt Lake Tribune

    Kali the elephant, Hogle Zoo's elder stateswoman, died Monday after a half-century in captivity.
    Veterinary staffers found the Salt Lake City zoo's lone Asian elephant lying on the floor of her indoor exhibit

Monday morning. Kali, who suffered from arthritis in her joints, was alert but unable to rise to her feet.
    Zoo officials decided to euthanize Kali, who was thought to be 59 years old. Asian elephants, which are endangered, have an average life span of 50 to 60 years. According to the zoo, Kali was the third-oldest Asian elephant in the country.
    "The quality of life wasn't going to be where we knew she wanted it to be or where we wanted it to be," said Doug Tomkinson, the zoo's elephant manager.
    Tomkinson said he was a little surprised that Kali's time was up now, considering that she had bounced back from previous medical problems. After she lost too much weight a few years ago, zoo staff managed to bulk her back up with a special diet.
    "She was looking better now than she was in the past 10 or 12 years," he said of Kali in recent months.
    Hogle Zoo has endured a rough stretch of animal deaths over the last year, including a pair of giraffes in February, a polar bear in November, a lion in October and a tiger cub in May.
    For Kali, who was born in the wild around 1945, the arthritis, despite anti-inflammatory treatments, proved too much.

[netmilsmom]

Animal Rights Idiots!
Elephants are extremely maternal and do adopt the trainers and workers as part of their herd. Joan Embry talked about it on the Tonight Show years ago. These dweebs killed that elephant by stressing her. Especially being sick, she was stressed that her herd was threatened.

[Darnright]

>Elephants are extremely maternal and do adopt the trainers and workers as part of their herd. Joan Embry talked about it on the Tonight Show years ago. These dweebs killed that elephant by stressing her. Especially being sick, she was stressed that her herd was threatened.<

Elephants form strong attachments to each other. Those "humane" animal rights wackos have caused emotional trauma to the remaining elephant, Tinkerbell.

They are sooo much more loving toward animals than are the rest of us < /sarcasm>.

[KosmicKitty]

I find it interesting that the elephant refused medication for tuberculosis. In the wild, don't elephants who sense that their own death is imminent leave the herd to die? I'm surprised that the animal rights activists did support her right to death with dignity.

Probably the best solution to euthenize the animal rights activists. Will probably save a lot of animals that way. These people tend to not be an animal's friend. Look at the California wild fires!!

[FormerRep]

Animal Protection Institute - Whackos website

http://www.api4animals.org/1576.htm

[correctthought]

These animal rights idiots are responsible for this. So sad to see such a wonderful animal stressed to death by these worthless bozos.

[Docbarleypop]

Maybe the two elephants had a plan, the one would push the other so it would fall on an activist?

[retrokitten]

"They don't have the faintest idea about those elephants. ... Maybe (Tinkerbelle) wanted to get it caught on video," Bolbol said.

Does this moron even listen to the idiotic things that come out of his mouth??

[retrokitten]

That is strange.

[The KG9 Kid]

Contact information (email, phone) for a 'Deniz Bolbol' also appears in a simple Google.

The (650) area code is the West SF Bay area code.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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