San Francisco Rules Could Bar Elephants from Zoo
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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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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - A homeowner in southern Sweden filed a police complaint after four circus elephants broke loose from their trainers and ran into his back yard, trampling the hedge and the lawn, a police spokesman said Thursday.    Mattias Lindell, 29, said the elephants completely ruined his garden Monday, after animal trainers working for German-based Circus Mustang lost control of the pachyderms when removing them from the vehicles they travel in...
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LOS ANGELES - Game show host Bob Barker will pledge $300,000 toward housing an elephant from the Los Angeles Zoo in an animal sanctuary, his publicist said Tuesday.
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San Franciscoâs Board of Supervisors has banned the feeding of a tourist attraction.
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Pachyderm underage rumpy-pumpy outrage Animals rights groups are none too pleased that Sydney's Taronga zoo has allowed a nine-year-old Asian elephant to get up the duff a full two years before what they consider is the captive pachyderm age of consent.â¦
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Officials preparing to reopen the San Francisco Zoo after a deadly tiger escape are worried visitors won't feel secure, though if past zoo attacks are any indication, curiosity might actually draw people in.
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The city'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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Following an impassioned public outcry, the Alaska Zoo board has decided to relocate the state's only elephant to another state under certain conditions, the board president said Wednesday.
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CALGARY - Zoo officials hope a special blood transfusion will give a baby elephant the infection-fighting antibodies it needs that it would normally get from mothers milk.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Investigators trying to determine how a tiger escaped its enclosure at the San Francisco Zoo _ killing one visitor and mauling two others on Christmas _ planned a thorough sweep of the zoo grounds Wednesday to look for clues.
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San Francisco police combed the city's zoo on Wednesday for clues as to how a tiger escaped from its enclosure on Christmas and killed one man and wounded two others.
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The death of an elderly elephant that was brought to the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago two years ago adds to the already contentious debate over whether elephants belong in northern zoos with cold winters.
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Culling and contraceptives are options South Africa is considering to limit an elephant population boom.
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A California law barring gay  marriage violates the state's constitution because it inhibits  freedom of expression and undermines privacy, lawyers for the  city of San Francisco argued in court on Wednesday.
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The death has prompted officials to change the habitats of some zoo animals.
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Debate is raging over the plight of US zoo elephants, with activists charging confinement destroys their feet and even kills them, and the industry fiercely defending their top crowd pleaser.
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By Brian Peach, The Paducah Sun, Ky.  Feb. 14-- -- Feeding the ducks at Noble Park will soon violate a city ordinance, and visitors who break that or other rules might risk a ban from all city parks.