San Francisco Mulls Ban of Beloved Zoo Elephants
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San Francisco officials pondered on Thursday whether to stop keeping elephants in the city's zoo as activists pushed for a ban amid concerns about their conditions in captivity.
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About a dozen Bollywood celebrities like John Abraham and Dilip Kumar has joined   hands with People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) to petition chief ministers for safety of elephants in   urban areas.
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Â· Zoo birds culled after complaints about noise Â· Horrified locals side with animal rights activists
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The American Zoo and Aquarium Association on Thursday denied Detroit Zoo director Ron Kagan&#39;s final appeal to send the two aging, arthritic elephants to one of two US sanctuaries where they could roam hundreds of acres.
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Robert Culp's lawsuit alleging that the Los Angeles Zoo mistreats elephants can go forward. Judge Reginald A. Dunn has rejected arguments by the city that the complaint filed by the 77-year-old actor and real estate agent Aaron Leider lacks a legal basis.
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A decision to be made this weekend on whether to allow the sale of 60 tons of elephant ivory is exposing rifts between nongovernment agencies dedicated to defending the diversity of plants and animals.
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Animal handlers agonized over the issue for more than a year: the wisdom of moving Alaska's only elephant away from the only home she has ever known. Nine elephant experts were consulted from zoos and animal parks in the United States and Canada, and a decision was made: Maggie stays.
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The Los Angeles Zoo's oldest elephant is poised to live out her remaining days at an animal sanctuary in central California after years of lobbying by animal activists for her retirement to a preserve.
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CHICAGO Elephants and employees at Lincoln Park Zoo are being tested for tuberculosis after an elephant died over the weekend. Zoo officials say the 35-year-old female African elephant that collapsed and died Saturday mostly likely had tuberculosis.
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FORT WORTH, Texas - The tsunami victims in Asia will be getting some help from an elephant who was born in Thailand but now resides at the Fort Worth Zoo.  An original work of art by Rasha, a 7,000-pound elephant, will be auctioned off on e-Bay beginning at noon Wednesday.
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Elephants must receive hundreds of times more space to live at San Francisco's zoo or not be kept at the facility, city legislators said on Tuesday in legislation that could effectively bar pachyderms for good.
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An international effort to halt the illegal killing of elephants for their ivory tusks has all but collapsed in most of Africa, leaving officials and advocates alarmed about the survival of the species. A study  released  yesterday estimates that as many as 23,000 of the animals were slaughtered...
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Officials at Chicago&#39;s Lincoln Park Zoo are testing elephants and keepers for tuberculosis after the death of a 35-year-old female African elephant.
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CALGARY (CP) - A three-week-old baby elephant that had been rejected by its mother has died at the Calgary Zoo. Zookeepers and veterinarians had been providing round-the-clock care to the unnamed Asian elephant
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Herds growing: South African farmers say they are destructive and dangerous. In the West, they are perhaps the most beloved of the big game species. So a proposal to cull the expanding elephant population is controversial. A12  U.S. attorneys: One of eight U.S.
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Investigators are trying to figure out how a Siberian tiger escaped from her enclosure at the San Francisco Zoo on Christmas Day and killed a zoo visitor. Two other visitors were injured. The tiger, a 300-pound female named Tatiana, did not get out through an open door, Robert Jenkins, the zoo's director of animal care and conservation, told The Associated Press.
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A judge has ruled that Robert Culp's lawsuit alleging that the Los Angeles Zoo mistreats elephants can go forward.